Re: [lojban] cu-alike for other situations

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:59:43PM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen
wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:31:17AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Something that I and some others have talked about on IRC a few
> > times is "Wow, cu is pretty useful when deeply nested; wouldn't
> > it be nice to have something like that that could work in other
> > places besides before the selbri?".
> > 
> > This turns out to be surprisingly tricky; many ideas have been
> > shown to be unworkable.
> > 
> > I think I might finally have something: mark FA as needing
> > terminator closure before it.  Example:
> > 
> > mi denpa le nu do xruti fi le nu zutse
> > 
> > vs.
> > 
> > mi denpa le nu do xruti cu fi le nu zutse
> 
> I don't understand what neither the problem nor the solution is.
> Can you translate the second sentence into current Lojban, please?

mi denpa le nu do xruti kei vau ku fi le nu zutse

(yes, I know you don't need all three, but I certainly could come up
with an example where you did need 3 terminaters)

I wouldn't say it's a *problem*, just that something like this is a
nice-to-have.

-Robin

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