Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:10:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711252310.SAA28931@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: zo and cmevla X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 871 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Nov 25 18:10:15 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU la lideniel. cusku di'e > The Refgram gives the example {zo djan. cmene mi}, and > it does warn that the usual rule about multiple names is > superceded by the one-word after {zo} rule, but it does > not make clear whether or not any single name is quotable > with {zo}, and I don't see how it can be. In particular, > if I said {zo lideniel. cmene mi} wouldn't that parse > incorrectly, as {zo} would be heard as quoting {li}? Actually, it would come through as "zolideniel. cmene mi". Names must be preceded by "la", "lai", "la'i", "doi", or pause, and in this case pause is called for: "zo .lideniel. cmene mi". Names are identified by the consonant+pause sequence at the end; one then works backward to the previous valid name-preceder. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban