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Subject: [lojban] Re: Official parser and "la by"
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Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> The official parser accepts
> 
>     la xyby ly ty cu cmene lo cfila be lo skami
> 
> I'm curious as to why, when "la xyby" is invalid, but not curious enough
> to go find out myself.

Part of its dimwitted morphology algorithm.  It believes that words ending
in XCy where X is anything and C is any consonant are cmene, because it
disregards y's in assigning most selma'o.

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