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

[jcowan@reutershealth.com]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> > If "da zei de" can be a single word for bu, why can't "zo da" be a
> > single word for bu?
> 
> As I haven't the slightest idea why ZEI was handled in a way different
> from every other preprocessor token, I don't have a good answer for
> that.

Probably because zei was invented long after the other magic preprocessor
words, and nobody was thinking about these corner cases at the time.

However, I would not want fu zei bar to become a single token, because
then "si" would dispose of all of it, which would be awkward for
na'e zei a zei bu zei na'e zei by zei livga terbilma
("non-A, non-B hepatitis", now usually called "hepatitis C").

It wouldn't break my heart if "zei zei ..." runs were always illegal, though:
that is, if zei could not act upon zei.

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