Re: [lojban] Re: bysydy .e xypapa

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:36, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> The official parser simply doesn't support strings of BYs, period.  I was
> wrong to say it thinks they're cmene; in fact, it thinks they are brivla,
> since there is a CC within the first five letters after y's are removed.
> The fact that no vowels are left is something that it doesn't notice.
>
> OTOH, "by.sy.dy. .e xy.papa" works fine.  By the Book, BY has to be
> pause-separated from what follows it.  It *probably* doesn't cause a
> problem when the next thing is another BY, but the results in other
> cases are unpredictable.

If the only words between the BY and the following pause are two-letter cmavo, 
there is no problem. Thus {lekybu.moi} is lexable. {lekymoi} without the 
pause is a lujvo. My lexer chokes on {kybumoi}, splitting {ky} off and 
calling the rest an error.

phma
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