Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id KAA05011 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 10:40:28 +0200 Message-Id: <199512220840.KAA05011@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id FDA6CE96 ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 9:40:28 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 03:39:29 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: response to Steven Belknap on language baselines and stability (long) X-To: sjb@universe.digex.net X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 657 Lines: 13 Because the grammar of whatever is non-standard is as unrestricted as the capability of non-standardness, there is no cmavo that could unfailingly cover the territory. za'e is pretty restricted and does not solve any grammar problems. The best way, which would handle MOST non-standard usages, is to put whatever non-standard text in the "questionable Lojban" quotes "lo'u" and "le'u". If you do this at the beginning of a sentence or text that will not meet that standard parse, then the entire quote gets treated as a sumti (which is valid as a standalone element in an utterance, and/or surreounded by ".i"s and "ni'o"s when emneeded in text. lojbab