From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon May 10 13:05:55 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 24729 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 20:05:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 May 2004 20:05:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2004 20:05:55 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07722; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:57:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 May 2004 16:04:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:04:03 -0400 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040510200403.GV8616@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040510191837.GK5570@digitalkingdom.org> <20040510193718.13449.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> <20040510194533.GL5570@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040510194533.GL5570@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22221 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > > If "da zei de" can be a single word for bu, why can't "zo da" be a > > single word for bu? > > As I haven't the slightest idea why ZEI was handled in a way different > from every other preprocessor token, I don't have a good answer for > that. Probably because zei was invented long after the other magic preprocessor words, and nobody was thinking about these corner cases at the time. However, I would not want fu zei bar to become a single token, because then "si" would dispose of all of it, which would be awkward for na'e zei a zei bu zei na'e zei by zei livga terbilma ("non-A, non-B hepatitis", now usually called "hepatitis C"). It wouldn't break my heart if "zei zei ..." runs were always illegal, though: that is, if zei could not act upon zei. -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan free-range chickens (except they have http://www.reutershealth.com teeth, arms instead of wings and http://www.ccil.org/~cowan dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso