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[lojban-beginners] Re: broda moi
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:02 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the rationale for permitting {me da}, which as a whole is a
> selbri, before {moi}?
I think the story goes something like this: First there was "number
MOI". Then this was extended to "lerfu-string MOI", because lerfu
strings can be used in many places where numbers can be used. But then
lerfu-string is also a sumti, and so they wanted to be able to convert
any sumti with MOI too. The problem is that "sumti MOI" by itself
would make the grammar not LALR1 and this was considered a problem.
Since they already had "ME sumti /MEhU/" as the conversion of sumti
into a tanru-unit, they added "ME sumti /MEhU/ MOI" as well. At least
that's what I think happened.
mu'o mi'e xorxes