Re: [lojban] zoi bug in camxes?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> zoi gy gyrate gy fails in camxes; that seems like a bug (in camxes)
> to me.  It seems to me that the final zoi delimiter must have a
> pause on both ends.  But I haven't read the relevant CLL bit in
> quite some time; what does it say about that?

CLL: "The cmavo “zoi” (of selma'o ZOI) is a quotation mark for quoting
non-Lojban text. Its syntax is “zoi X. text .X”, where X is a Lojban
word (called the delimiting word) which is separated from the quoted
text by pauses, and which is not found in the written text or spoken
phoneme stream."

It doesn't say that the first X need be preceded by a pause, nor that
the final X need be followed by a pause.

But even the pauses that CLL does mention aren't always needed. For
example camxes probably approves of "zoidadida".

> Certainly for
>
>  zoi gy. gyrations .gy.
>
> to "work" but
>
>  zoi gy gyrate gy
>
> to "not work" is a bug in camxes by my standards; it needs to be one
> or the other.

Why? From a Lojbanic perspective "gyrations" is a single word, while
"gyrate" are three words, so there doesn't seem to be a reason (unless
you know English, but the Lojban parser doesn't) to treat it as one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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