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Subject: [lojban] Re: ".i no'i broda"
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:23:33PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > grammar.300 seems to allow sentences like
> > 
> >     ".i no'i broda"
> >
> > Was this intentional?  If so, why, and what does it mean?
> >
> 
> I don't see a problem in allowing empty sentences: 
> {i i i i broda i brode i i i brodi}.
> Or are they allowed only at the beginning of text?

Only at the beginning, AFAICT.

> {i ni'o broda} is an empty sentence followed by a new paragraph.

Agreed.

-Robin

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