[lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?

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

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:53:21PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > SI was operating on Y.  Oops.  Fixed.
> > 
> > It now says:
> > 
> > sumti6=( ZO=( zo ) zoClause=( y y y si nalselmorjyvalsi )
> > absorbIndicators=() free=() )
> 
> So Y is not a word from the point of view of SI, except when ZO has
> recognized it as one, right? 

That is what I was doing, but I've backpedalled.

I agree with you: treating Y as a word for purposes of ZO and ZEI is
just too damned unintuitive.  Barring someone objecting in a convincing
fashion, my parser treats Y as a space except for Y+BU.

-Robin

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