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Re: [bpfk] Re: Grammar of letterals and numerals in {li}

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:57 AM, <spheniscine@gmail.com> wrote:
One advantage would be not having two separate rules.

I don't see why that's such a problem. The grammar of LI...LOhO is already unique; that's why it's its own selma'o. And I don't think there are any serious attempts to combine it with any other selma'o, unlike sumtcita.

"number" appears in the following contexts in the grammar:

number ROI
number MOI
number MAI
XI number [BOI]
number [BOI] (= quantifier, which in turn can also be an operand)

"lerfu-string" appears in similar (but not identical) contexts:

lerfu-string MOI
lerfu-string MAI
XI lerfu-string [BOI]
lerfu-string [BOI] (= operand)
lerfu-string [BOI] (= sumti)

(Also TEI lerfu-string FOI, which converts a lerfu-string into a lerfu. I don't remember ever seeing it used though.)

The numbers that appear in LI ... LOhO are mex, which can be a single operand, which can be a quantifier or a lerfu-string.

If I understand correctly, you are proposing that "operand" would no longer be "quantifier" or "lerfu-string" (among other things) but some new mixed entity. Whether this is a problem or not depends on your idea of simplicity, and whether or not it's worth striving for.

But seriously, if LI...LOhO is messed with, breaking the functionality of {me'o} (and {li'ai}, 
which under your proposal might actually be now needed to quote things like R2D2 {li'ai ry re dy re} instead of using it as a bare sumti),

As a bare sumti. it's a pronoun, not a name, so that doesn't seem to change. "li'ai ry re bu dy re bu" for R2D2 would be much like "li'ai ny .a bu sy .a bu" for NASA. 

Under your proposal you would still need "boi" or "lo'o" in cases such as "li'ai R2D2 [boi/lo'o/cu] za'u re'u cusku".

we'd be forced to come up with a new selma'o just so we can quote arbitrary character strings without attaching {bu} to every nacle'u.

We now have to attach "bu" to every vowel, is that so different? Lerfu-strings are relatively rare in usage. I just don't see much need to have special rules for them.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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