Re: [lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI

[lojban@raphael.poss.name (Raphaël Poss)]

Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> writes:

>> Also, from a making-sense point of view, I prefer "si" after the
>> closing delimiter to delete the entire zoi phrase (back to and
>> including the zoi).  To say that "The first SI after the close of a
>> ZOI clause erases the closing delimiter..." would make one think the
>> next thing said is part of the inside of the ZOI; so you would never
>> be able to get back to the ZOI.  
>
> Yes, I understand your point completely.  I'd love to hear other people
> chime in on this point.  The problem is that SI is only supposed to
> erase one previous word, so we're moving in to the realm of "not
> justifiable under current standards".

Besides, we have a design flaw  if "si" is supposed  to step back into
the ZOI construct  "word per word"  : what is  a word outside Lojban ?
How "si" is going to affect the  construct if we  cannot break it down
into words in the lojban sense of the term ?

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