On Oct 13, 2010 10:02 PM, "Jorge Llambías" <
jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Luke Bergen <
lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, I understand what happens with zo si si si.
>
> With the PEG grammar you only use one "si" to delete the whole "zo
> si", and there is no way to delete the quoted word alone. This is
> because magic words work on a "first come first served" basis, and
> once a word has been quoted with "zo" they form an inseparable unit.
>
> "Magic words" are ZO, ZEI, BU, SI, SA, SU, LOhU-LEhU and ZOI. The
> peculiarity of these words is that they see all other words as just
> words, they don't care what selma'o they belong to, they treat them
> all the same. And once they've grabbed them they won't let them go, so
> essentially they form a compound that behaves like a single word.
>
>> But what happens if I say
>> {.i mi cusku lu mi nelci lo xunre li'u si gerk li'u}. Does the si
>> successfully "take back" the first li'u such that the "gerku" is still part
>> of the quote?
>
> Yes. "lu" and "li'u" behave like ordinary words. They do care what
> selma'o the words they have dealings with belong to.
>
> But in "lo'u si si si si si si si le'u si", all the "si" inside
> lo'u-le'u are deactivated (because lo'u came first and treats anything
> until "le'u" as just-a-word, it doesn't care what word it is. But then
> the whole construction "lo'u si si si si si si si le'u" is now a
> single entity and the final "si" can take revenge and delete it all in
> one swoop.
>
> Similarly a single "si" is enough to delete "broda zei brode" just as
> it deletes "brodybrode", and it will delete ".abu" just as it deletes
> "by".
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
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