Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 May 2004 13:06:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.82]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BNH2h-0007UO-2R for lojban-in@lojban.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:06:27 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-22243-1084219555-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.31] by n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2004 20:05:56 -0000 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 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> 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:04:03 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 7758 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Content-Length: 1728 Lines: 46 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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lojban-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/