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Re: [lojban] go'i as "yes"




> If I were writing a program to parse lojban, how should my parser deal with
> a piece of discourse that contained {go'i} if it wanted to expand
> everything?
> i.e. given the following bridi
> .i ti'e .u'i la .bob. noi lazni cu zvati to pe'i cinri toi ma
> How does {go'i} differ syntactically and semantically from {zo'e zvati zo'e}

Neither seems like a very helpful answer to a "ma" question.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

I know, I was just throwing as much interesting stuff into a predicate as I could think of at the time and then saying "go'i" as a way of asking "do {ma} get repeated in a go'i?"

Based on the rest of your email, it sounds like a good rule of thumb is "read {go'i} like it's repeating only the main selbri of the previous bridi where it's places are filled with {zo'e} which usually means to assume the previous bridi's terbri(s)".

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