Re: [lojban] Re: Another book wierdness.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Try this one:

    nu'i ge mi lo nu cusku bau nu'u gi do da nelci

without {nu'u} it breaks down and it can't recover, because
the error appears only at {do}. There are better alternative 
terminators to use there instead of nu'u, though: {ku}, {kei}, 
and {vau}, in order of decreasing preference.

(I only understand this stuff in the sense that I can read the 
EBNF grammar, but I can't really use them fluently. I never
remember, for instance, whether {nu'i} is supposed to go
before or after {ge}.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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