[lojban] Re: (arguable) jbofi'e bug: mi ca'o tai klaku

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:17:24PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > jbofihe does not accept
> > 
> >     mi ca'o tai klaku
> > 
> > It turns out that whether one accepts this as a jbofihe bug or not
> > depends on what one thinks of treading "mo'ini'a mo'ini'a" as
> > "mo'ini'a ku mo'ini'a ku", because this is exactly the same
> > situation: the other two parsers see the example above as "mi ca'o
> > ku tai klaku".
> 
> While I do believe that this is the only justifiable (from the
> baseline) parse of that sentence, note that it's likely to be very
> confusing to new users, as it does *not* mean "I am continuing to
> weep" (ignoring 'tai' because I have no idea how to interpret it
> there).
> 
> As such, xorxes, you may want to consider re-writing that sentence
> (it's from Alice).

Another one:

    iki'ubo mi noroi pu cmalu tai ti

-Robin

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