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[lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:15:35AM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >Barring someone objecting in a convincing fashion, my parser treats Y
> >as a space except for Y+BU.
>
> "y" is a word. Hence it should be quotable with "zo".
"Of course, ``.y.'' has no grammatical significance: it can appear
anywhere at all in a Lojban sentence except in the middle of a word."
>>From the CLL.
> "lo nu pensi kei smuni zo y"
mi djisku zo .y. .y. si si si si .y. si zo .y. si si si samru'e
(Yes, you do need 4 si in that first case: "zo .y. .y. si si si" == "zo
si".)
Making it impossible for people to audibly hesitate when thinking of a
word is onerous. Having to use zoi doesn't seem like a horrible burden
to me.
-Robin
--
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