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Re: [lojban] Re: Another book wierdness.



On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:47:10AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 15.7)  mi ce'e bau la lojban. pe'e joi do ce'e bau la gliban.
> > nu'u casnu
> >     ( I [plus] in-language Lojban massed-with you [plus]
> >     in-language English) discuss.
> > 
> > My version of the official parser doesn't handle pe'e or ce'e,
> > however it seems Amazingly Unlikely that the sentence is correct
> > in any sense, as it uses nu'u to terminate ce'e/pe'e, which the
> > grammar does not allow that I can see.
> 
> The sentence is correct without nu'u.

Since you seem to understand this stuff, xorxes (or anyone else who
wants to jump in), what I really need is a sentence where dropping
nu'u causes a failure to parse.  Not just an unintended meaning, but
actual non-parseability.

-Robin

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