[lojban] Re: lujvo finti

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Monday 18 October 2004 00:30, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:16:58AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > ni'o xu lo'u la'o tok. toki pona .tok. le'u gendra?
>
> Why wouldn't it be?  There's no pause in "toki".

According to chapter 19, the delimiter has to be separated from the quoted 
text by pauses. It doesn't say that it has to be separated from the next 
Lojban word. The example of a quotation which is bad in writing is:
mi djuno fi le valsi po'u zoi gy. gyrations .gy.
This contains a null quotation followed by {rations. gy.}. If there weren't a 
quotation around, {gy rations} would require a pause, but apparently {gy} is 
considered a valid delimiter even though it is not followed by a pause.

On the other hand, if the delimiter occurs not immediately preceded by a 
pause, it is not the terminating delimiter: {zoi zoi. borzoi .zoi} is valid.

phma
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