Re: [lojban-beginners] Allowing empty {soi}

[Miles Forster <m3o@plasmatix.com>]

Am 12.07.2011 18:57, schrieb Luke Bergen:
> ok, so my question is, what are the specific rules that make it such 
> that in "soi broda fa ko'a ko'e ko'i" "ko'e" and "ko'i" are the ones 
> that are reciprocal and not "ko'a" and one of the other two?

No rules, just context. The other possibilities there just didn't make 
sense. The point of empty {soi} is to save time in obvious situations, 
but when confusion is feared, you can still fill one or both sumti in as 
usual.


> As in, could you describe how you think {soi} should work in terms 
> like "when soi is encountered, take the first sumti and the last sumti 
> of the current level bridi and make them reciprocal" or some such?
Again, there is no rule here. If context doesn't make it clear, don't 
use empty {soi}.

> Something human readable but which seems like it could be described to 
> a parser.
This is easy I believe. {soi} *always* eats exactly two sumti. This 
won't change, and so
{soi ko'a se'u} == {soi ko'a zo'e se'u}
and
{soi se'u} == {soi zo'e zo'e se'u}
which means also that
{soi broda} == {soi zo'e zo'e se'u broda}
({soi} being a free modifier.)


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