[lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> OK, so what would you say that "zo broda zei broda" is, then?  I
> certainly don't know.  If I had to pick one, I would say that it's
> "(zo broda) zei broda"; i.e. "'broda' type of broda".

Me too. In fact that's what I thought it meant until you raised
this issue and I looked into it more carfeully. I recently used
{zo zei zei lujvo} for "'zei'-lujvo", for example, convinced
that it was legal. A simple {zei zei lujvo} obviously won't work.

BTW, what does your parser do with {zei zei da} at the beginning
of text?

> > {da zei de bu} is legal: first {da zei de} delivers BRIVLA, and then
> > {BRIVLA BU} delivers BY.
> 
> Good point, but not terribly helpful for the ZO + ZEI case that I can
> see.

At least it shows that "word" is a flexible concept in these 
definitions.

In {zo da si de}, {zo da bu}, {zo da zei de}, we have zo
and something else fighting over the same word, one pulling
from the left and the other from the right. We just have to 
define which one has priority, and the other one should
act on what remains.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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