From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Dec 22 03:58:37 1995 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Date: Fri Dec 22 03:58:37 1995 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: John Cowan Status: OR Message-ID: 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