[lojban-beginners] Re: Referring to selma'o in Lojban

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Pierre Abbat<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>
> So "zo si bu zei zo si bu" is processed like this:
> (zo si) bu zei zo si bu
> ((zo si) bu) zei zo si bu
> (((zo si) bu) zei zo) si bu
> bu
> error, because there is no preceding word.
> Right?

Right.

> What about "zo y si"? "zo y bu"?

camxes doesn't consider "y" to be a word, so the first is the same as
"zo si". "ybu" on the other hand is treated as a word, so the second
is a quoted "ybu". Admittedly the word ".ybu" is the oddest word of
the language, because it's the only one that admits a pause in the
middle.

mu'o mi'e xorxes