[lojban] Re: zo si si si

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I wasn't reasoning that the "si" is being canceled by the following "si" but that when "si" erases the quoted "si" it now leaves us with the string "mi cusku zo " and now we have "si" again, so we have "mi cusku zo si" because {zo} goes ahead and quotes the next word like it always does like the following:

(imagine this being spoken)

1) mi cusku zo si (I say 'si')
2) si (now I've canceled the quoted si leaving us  with "mi cusku zo")
3) si (now I've given "zo" something to quote so we have "mi cusku zo si" like we had in step 1)
4) si (now we've repeated step 2)
5) si (step 3)
6) si (step 2)
...
... 

 - Luke Bergen

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com> wrote:

I understand your reasoning, Luke, but if {si si} would cancel out to
the empty string, then there would be no way of erasing multiple
words.

You can compare this to undo functionality in text editors. Emacs
works similarly to how you expected Lojban to work: if you undo
something in Emacs, you can always undo the undoing. In Lojban, you
can't undo undoing and there is no automatic redo.

--
Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se

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