Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA16295 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:55:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199511211555.KAA16295@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 7C94AB5E ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:46:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:17:13 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: quoting X-To: BARRETO%VELAHF@ECCSA.TR.UNISYS.COM X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Tue Nov 21 10:55:27 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU rafsi are not necessarily quotable with "zo" since they are not of themselves words, but all CVC rafsi are of the form of names and thus could be quoted, and all CVV rafsi are of the form of cmavo and could be quoted, bith with zo, but youy would need a relative clause or context to indictae that they are rafsi and not the standalone words that they resemble. Otherwise, and with CCV rafsi which cannot be words, you need to use "zoi" delimited quotes. Actually, with pauses before and after, zo would also work with a CCV rafsi since the pauses would "force" a word interpretation, but the parser would reject such a usage. Zo is a shortcut and we have not seen a lot of reason to try to make it maximally flexible, even if we could easily do so. lojbab