From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu May 13 14:42:07 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 81064 invoked from network); 13 May 2004 21:42:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m19.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 May 2004 21:42:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 May 2004 21:42:06 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BONuq-0001hJ-GW for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:38:56 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BONuL-0001gD-0B; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:38:25 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 May 2004 14:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BONu9-0001fq-7R for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:38:13 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:38:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20040513213813.GZ4461@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040513193917.GC16333@fysh.org> <20040513210600.77877.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040513210600.77877.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-archive-position: 7808 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22271 On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:06:00PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > --- Zefram wrote: > > * it can be used as a "zoi" delimiter (though I think the ability to > > use erase words here is bad design; I'd prefer "zoi si zo" to > > preprocess to "zo") > > Right. None of si, sa, su, y, zei or bu should be allowed as zoi > delimiters, since delimiters are not scarce so it doesn't make sense > to block the more useful interpretation. That makes sense to me. If no-one has horrible objections, I think I'll go with it. Due to precedence issues, bu, zei, and .y. already fail as zoi delimiters, so explicitely denying the erasure words as well isn't much of a stretch (and much less work than allowing all six as delimiters). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi