Re: [lojban] si and quotes

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

hmm, yeah, that's a good question.  I don't know if anyone has formally worked out lo'ai sa'ai le'ai.  Maybe I should learn PEG and write up a proposed formal definition.  How does the grammar treat to ... toi?  I would think that lo'ai sa'ai le'ai would have a similar structure. I see it as a metalinguistic comment about previous statements.  I'm guessing that it would probably be too complex to have the grammar go back and make the actual substitutions.

And it could cause problems if one did something like ".ui mi nelci lo selsa'a beme'e lu zo si si si li'u" which, I'm not sure how that would behave.  zo si si gets negated and then the third si kills lu then another zo si si kills itself and another third si kills me'e.

2010/10/14 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well... I guess it could work... it would just bite into whatever came
> before the song.  It goes:
> zo si si si   zo si si si
> lo'ai sa'ai le'ai
> zo si si si   zo si si si
> lo'ai sa'ai le'ai
> re kanla sa
> re kanla .e lo rebla co'e sa
> re kanla sa
> re kanla .e lo rebla co'e su
> I forget who invented it but I first heard about it from selkik ages ago
> when I asked how zo interacted with si

Oh, so it uses all kinds of unofficial stuff. Not a problem then, it's
almost in a different language. :)

A "si" at the beginning of text is allowed, so the only question is
whether something from the first "lo'ai sa'ai le'ai" gets deleted or
not. has anybody ever worked out the formal grammar rules for "lo'ai
sa'ai le'ai"? I remember there being talk about it, but I don't
remember any conclusions.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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