From phma@webjockey.net Tue May 04 13:56:59 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 97502 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 20:56:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 May 2004 20:56:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 May 2004 20:56:59 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D351645DA; Tue, 4 May 2004 20:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:56:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20040504201320.GZ14939@digitalkingdom.org> <20040504203621.GE2542@skunk.reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <20040504203621.GE2542@skunk.reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405041656.52957.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: bysydy .e xypapa X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22109 On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:36, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote: > The official parser simply doesn't support strings of BYs, period. I was > wrong to say it thinks they're cmene; in fact, it thinks they are brivla, > since there is a CC within the first five letters after y's are removed. > The fact that no vowels are left is something that it doesn't notice. > > OTOH, "by.sy.dy. .e xy.papa" works fine. By the Book, BY has to be > pause-separated from what follows it. It *probably* doesn't cause a > problem when the next thing is another BY, but the results in other > cases are unpredictable. If the only words between the BY and the following pause are two-letter cmavo, there is no problem. Thus {lekybu.moi} is lexable. {lekymoi} without the pause is a lujvo. My lexer chokes on {kybumoi}, splitting {ky} off and calling the rest an error. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa