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[lojban-beginners] Re: why won't jbofi'e parse this?



de'i li 15 pi'e 04 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> So, I was going to do a twitter update of:
> .aisai mi ba kelci la dy dy ry ja'e lo nu mi ba kanro
> which I think is something like "determination I'm going to play DDR to get
> healthy"
> 
> But in checking it against jbofi'e first I find that it won't parse.  If I
> replace "dy dy ry" with another valid cmene it doesn't complain.  But I
> thought that "la" can take spaces like "la nicte cadzu" and "dy" and "ry"
> are valid lojban words are they not?
.skamyxatra

LA can take either (a) a sequence of one or more {cmevla}, or (b) a {selbri}.
"{dy dy ry}" is neither.  Section 17.12 of the CLL describes how {cmene} for
acronyms can be created; under that system, DDR would be "{dydyryr.}."

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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