[lojban] Re: lerfu question

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Chris Capel wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering about this example from la nicte cadzu:
>>
>> .u'e sai le risna be sy pa roi da'ergau
>>
>> As it stands, "sy pa" runs together as a lerfu string and makes the
>> whole thing ungrammatical. To fix it, even a "bu" won't do (still a
>> lerfu string), you have to use a "ku". (This is with my implementation
>> of the official PEG parser.) Does all this sound right?
>
> I think "ku" only works because it terminates "le risna be sy"; to terminate
> just the "sy" itself, you have to use "boi".

Ahh, that's right. I was thinking "bu" was "boi", but no, it's just
bu. But the "bu" *is* required in this case?

Chris Capel
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