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[lojban] Re: experimental cmavo in lojgloss.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering how to handle experimental cmavo in Lojgloss. As I see
> it, they probably fall into at least two catogories.
>
> 1) Drops right into an existing selma'o, like BAI.
> 2) Constitutes its own selma'o.
>
> 1 could be handled pretty straightforwardly without having to change
> the parser code, just using some configuration. But 2 would probably
> be more difficult to handle. At the extreme it would require changing
> the grammar and recompiling the parser. It'd be nice to avoid that. So
> how common is case 2?

The only example of 2 that comes to mind is zo'oi/la'oi, of selma'o ZOhOI.

The rules for selmaho ZOhOI should be just like those for ZO, except
"any-word" is replaced by something similar to "zoi-word".

In general, introducing a new selmaho is a bad idea, unless very
explicit rules are given for it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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