[lojban] Re: zei + zoi ?

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

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:43:27AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > Both jbofie and the official parser accept
> > 
> >     le zoi ibu cgi-bin ibu zei samselpla
> 
> That's right. {i bu} is not a word, so you have:
> 
> {le zoi i bu cgi-bin i bu zei samselpla}, which means the
> same as {le bu zei samselpla pe zoi i bu cgi-bin i}.
> The preparser will deal first with zoi, then with zei 
> and only then with bu, if they had not been swallowed.

Wait, *no*, that's wrong.

    a. If the Lojban word "zoi" (selma'o ZOI) is identified, take the
    following Lojban word (which should be end delimited with a pause
    for separation from the following non-Lojban text) as an opening
    delimiter.

To interpret it as you're suggesting requires that "i" be eaten without
a following pause delimiter.  Whether that matters in this case I'm not
sure, but it certainly violates grammar.300.

-Robin

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