Re: [lojban] Re: Double-checking: "bu bu"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:57:05PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > I completely forgot to check the new definitions.
> > 
> > Fixed.
> 
> It's disheartening that you are "fixing" the parser instead of the
> definition. 

I don't have the power to single-handedly fix the definitions.  If you
want to propose that the BPFK revisit this issue, please feel absolutely
free.

> Everybody seemed to agree that it made more sense to not let bu be a
> zoi delimiter.

I actually don't much care one way or the other at this point.

What would "zoi bu" mean if it was allowed?

> > As an obvious side-effect, zoi bu ... bu is valid (as I assume was
> > the commissioner's intention).
> 
> The commissioner was simply reproducing the official grammar, which
> indeed had zoi bu ... bu as valid. The alternatives had not been
> considered until now.

True.

> > Similarily, "bu zei bu" now works, which (unlike zoi bu ... bu)
> > might actually be useful for naming really wierd letters using CMENE
> > ZEI BU.
> 
> Does that mean that in {da bu zei bu}, zei wins?

That does follow, yes, as the other possible parse results in an error.

> > > I understand {zo y bu si si da} reduces to {zo da}. Does {zo y bu
> > > si da} reduce to {zo y da}, i.e. {zo da} too?
> > 
> > You never let up, do you?  :-)
> > 
> > No, it does not, because that would require a single SI to erase
> > both BU and Y.
> 
> So {zo y bu si da} is ungrammatical?

Sorry, I'm working on this still, I'll get back to you.

-Robin

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