[lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan."

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

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > This sentence:
> > 
> >     mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan.
> > 
> > is given as an example in the book, yet prima facia it's wrong:
> > there is no other sentence starter to erase back to.
> 
> What exactly is the rule for sa? Can't it be "erase back until you
> find a word of the same selamho as the word following sa, or to the
> beginning of text if no such word is found"?

Currently only the stuff before the comma in your version.  Your version
makes more sense than what I was trying, though, I think.  I can imagine
horrible mistakes, though:

    mi viska le broda sa la broda

(hint: LA != LE)

Of course, there is no interpretation of sa that allows that example to
do the thing the user would lkely want.

-Robin

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