[lojban-beginners] Re: nitcu le denpa lerfu fi ma

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Dec 26, 2007 3:06 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 December 2007 23:12, Penguino wrote:
>
> > A pause is needed after the first delimiter, and before the second. There's
> > another one after the second *gy.* because it is a letter-word. If a
> > non-letter-word was used then it won't be needed: "zoi zoi. something .zoi"
>
> Thus {zoi zoi. borzoi .zoi} is a valid quotation. About {zoi ly.
> Lythraceae .ly.}, I'm not so sure.

It shouldn't be a problem either because "Lythraceae" cannot be broken
up into a string of Lojban words, so the parser should take it as a single
foreign word. At least that's what camxes would do with it.

> The reason for requiring the pause after Cy (it's not required after {tei} and
> other words in BY that don't end in "y") is that, without it, a phrase such
> as {le my moi} sounds like a lujvo. If the Cy is followed by a CV cmavo, and
> the pause is moved after the CV, the pause still prevents it from being taken
> as a lujvo. So I say {le kybu. moi}.

{lekybumoi} is also not a probem, as it cannot be anything but a string of cmavo
{le ky bu moi}.

If I'm not mistaken, besides its use as a zoi-delimiter, the only times when
a pause is required after Cy is when immediately preceded by a CV without
an intervening pause and followed by a brivla or a CVV cmavo, because in
that case CVCy- looks like an initial rafsi instead of like two cmavo.

mu'o mi'e xorxes