[lojban] {humour} Fixing the magic words is like...

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

I'm working on the Magic Words BPFK checkpoint (that's all the cmavo
that affect the speech stream in general, such as si, zo, lu, fa'o
and so on).

You can see section 16 of
http://lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter19.html for
more information, but bear in mind that that list is not complete
(what, for example, happens with "zo broda bu"?).

It occurs to me that completely solving the magic words problem is
very much like writing the perfect algorithm for a game of rock,
paper and scissors that along with those three also has hand signs
for sticks, swords, grenades, dragons, nuclear bombs, and the final
coming of the great Cthulhu.

In addition, it's being played by people with seven arms, and any
number of combination can be used, and the results are read
left-to-right, but these beings have 31 eye stalks that are 2.5
meters long, and any point of view is valid for the left-to-right
reading.

OK, it's not *actually* that bad, but the image was funny.

-Robin

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