[lojban] Re: Question about something I'm reading..............

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

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0400, Betsemes wrote:
> I downloaded what I believe is chapter one of a story called "la
> nicte cadzu". Some text in that story is bothering me.
> 
> sy ze'a zgana lo tarmi poi ca'o cenba .i ba bo sy suksa jimpe lo
> du'u le tarmi cu simsa lo .oxtapodi
> 
> The last word begins in a vowel but ends in a vowel too. It seems
> to be a fu'ivla, but...
> 
> * I cannot find it in jbovlaste

Ooops.  My fault.

I'm rather a lot of words behind in adding my LNC words to
jbovlaste.

This is really Pierre's area of expertise, though.  Pierre, would
you mind doing it?

> * jbofi'e seems to not have any problem with it at all

Nor should it.

> * cmafi'e breaks it into two words: .oxtapod (a cmene) and i
> (sentence separator).

I'm pretty sure that's a bug in cmafi'e.  cmafi'e can't even deal
with explicit emphasis, so it really shouldn't be trusted, IMO.

The camxes parser and valfendi both have much better morphology
handling.

-Robin

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