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Re: [lojban] proposed grammar definition for ZOhOI



I added this to the typography page, describing it as a thought
experiment.  Thank you.

-Alan

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:37:09PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
>    On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM, .alyn.post.
>    <[1]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> 
>      xorxes pointed out earlier today in a different thread that
>      zoi's delimiters must be valid lojban words. This excludes
>      " from being used. Nevertheless, I give you points for
>      cleverness there. :-D
> 
>    If one wanted to be too clever by half, one could argue that " is a
>    representation of the cmevla {.quot.} like 4 is a representation of the
>    namcu valsi {vo}.
> 
>      -Alan
>      On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:40:59PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
>      > I agree that zo'oi "Where are your keys?" should not be valid,
>      although I
>      > could see an argument for zoi " Where are your keys? " being made, or
>      at
>      > least for a zoi-like word which accepts non-word, non-letter
>      delimiters.
>      >
>      > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:30 PM, .alyn.post.
>      > <[1][2]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
>      >
>      > Good catch, thank you. The definition of spaces in the (my) grammar
>      > is:
>      >
>      > spaces <- ( comma* space-char )+ EOF?
>      > / EOF
>      >
>      > Which includes what I understand to be a pause. (comma and space,
>      > which includes punctuation like ? and !.)
>      >
>      > I've been experimenting with this part of the morphology, I believe
>      > camxes includes Y (hesitation) here, which is an interesting
>      > question:
>      >
>      > For ZOhOI, LAhOI, &c, anything that quotes a single word, is
>      > hesitation allowed between zo'oi and the quoted word? zo permits
>      > hesitation between between zo and the quoted word, but the quoted
>      > word is Loban. If we permit hesitation between ZOhOI and the
>      > quoting word, we don't allow ourselves to quote a foreign word that
>      > coincidentally is .y.
>      >
>      > In theory, we could use ZOI and delimit the word in this case, so it
>      > isn't a show-stopper. camxes actually doesn't permit this usage
>      > either (though it is grammatical, you wind up with a parse tree that
>      > is quoting nothing rather than quoting .y.), which is why I've been
>      > experimenting with Y handling.
>      >
>      > Interesting question, nevertheless. Accuracy versus consistency?
>      > What do you think?
>      >
>      > I also asked xalbo whether this this was valid usage:
>      >
>      > zo'oi "Where are your Keys?"
>      >
>      > And he opined no.
>      >
>      > -Alan
>      > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:19:59PM +1100, Ross Ogilvie wrote:
>      > > From jbovlaste, zo'oi acts to "quote next non-Lojban word only;
>      quotes
>      > a
>      > > single non-Lojban word delimited by pauses (in speech) or whitespace
>      > (in
>      > > writing)".
>      > >
>      > > It seems to say that the pauses are required. ie
>      > > ZOhOI-pre <- pre-clause ZOhOI spaces non-lojban-word spaces
>      > >
>      > > I don't know enough about the parsing of non-lojban-word to know if
>      it
>      > > will make a difference
>      > >
>      > > mu'o mi'e ros
>      > >
>      > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:48 AM, .alyn.post.
>      > > <[1][2][3]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
>      > >
>      > > In discussion with xalbo on #lojban, This is the proposed definition
>      > > for ZOhOI as expressed in PEG. The '...' productions are existing
>      > > rules in the grammar that surround the new definitions, which are
>      > > shown here.
>      > >
>      > > ZOhOI <- &cmavo ( z o h o i ) &post-word -> ZOhOI
>      > >
>      > > ZOhOI-clause <- ZOhOI-pre ZOhOI-post
>      > > -> ZOhOI-clause
>      > > ZOhOI-pre <- pre-clause ZOhOI `spaces? non-lojban-word `spaces?
>      > > ZOhOI-post <- post-clause
>      > >
>      > > CMAVO <- ...
>      > > / ZOhOI
>      > > / ...
>      > >
>      > > sumti-6 <- ...
>      > > / ZOhOI-clause free*
>      > > / ...
>      > >
>      > > known-cmavo-sa <- ...
>      > > / ZOhOI-pre
>      > > / ...
>      > >
>      > > ;; I'm not certain of the postfix to use here, this needs testing.
>      > > ;; It may be just 'ZOhOI'
>      > > ;;
>      > > known-cmavo-pre <- ...
>      > > / ZOhOI-pre
>      > > / ...
>      > >
>      > > There are a small number of issues surrounding the ZOhOI-pre clause,
>      > > and what exactly consitutes a non-lojban-word. All of this is
>      > > untested, I wrote this up as a proof of concept. I'm hoping this
>      > > can be a contribution to a definition of ZOhOI formal enough to
>      > > present to the BPFK.
>      > >
>      > > -Alan
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