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[lojban] Re: nai in UI (was: BPFK phpbb)



At 04:36 PM 4/28/03 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> la camgusmis cusku di'e
>
> > My new example of how insane this is is
> >
> > nai nai nai mi nai nelci nai nai nai
> >
> > which would be legal if this change was made.
>
>   nai nai nai na'e bo mi na'e na'e na'e nelci
>
> is currently grammatical (and equally bad style).

As is "jai jai jai na'e jai je'a klesi jai cupra", which was offered by a
random sentence generator, and defended by Jay as being grammatical, and
yet now we're supposed to get our panties twisted at the fear of "nai nai
nai".

That one bit of nonsense passes the parser is no argument to make more nonsense pass the parser.

lojbab

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