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

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

On Dec 26, 2007 3:13 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   The "fall-off" problem is presumably that AS SOON AS you hear(/see) that
> guard word/syllable, whatever, the quote is closed off, and the rest must be
> considered to be presumably valid lojban, and neither human nor computer
> parsers are expected to know it's an exception, since in a foreign quote
> there could be (as here) a pause before the word inside the quote.
> "mi djuno fi lo valsi po'u zoi jai .jai...*reicns jai"

But the exception would be to decide that you have hit the word before you
get to a pause. You can never, in a Lojban string of text or sound, be sure
that you have a word until you've reached a pause or space, because it
can always be part of a cmevla. Why would there be an exception here?

The two words {jai.reicns} cannot be quoted with {jai ... jai}, but the
single cmevla {jaireicns} is not a problem for the distinct word {jai}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes