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Re: [lojban] Re: zei + zoi ?
On Saturday 01 May 2004 13:14, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> a. If the Lojban word "zoi" (selma'o ZOI) is identified, take the
> following Lojban word (which should be end delimited with a pause
> for separation from the following non-Lojban text) as an opening
> delimiter.
>
> To interpret it as you're suggesting requires that "i" be eaten without
> a following pause delimiter. Whether that matters in this case I'm not
> sure, but it certainly violates grammar.300.
As I read it, it doesn't. The rule doesn't say that the following Lojban word
must have a pause after it, it just says that it should. In this case, {i} is
identifiable as a word because the following {bu} has a pause after it and
{ibu} is uniquely lexable as two words. In {zoi ka hitmamzer. ka}, where the
pauses before the foreign word are omitted, the lexer runs into the forbidden
consonant pair not having decided that {ka} is a separate word, so the ZOI
rule can't be applied.
phma
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