Re: [lojban] Re: zei + zoi ?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Saturday 01 May 2004 13:14, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>     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.

As I read it, it doesn't. The rule doesn't say that the following Lojban word 
must have a pause after it, it just says that it should. In this case, {i} is 
identifiable as a word because the following {bu} has a pause after it and 
{ibu} is uniquely lexable as two words. In {zoi ka hitmamzer. ka}, where the 
pauses before the foreign word are omitted, the lexer runs into the forbidden 
consonant pair not having decided that {ka} is a separate word, so the ZOI 
rule can't be applied.

phma
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