Re: [lojban] Error in DAG-CLL? 4.6

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

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:25:51PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> 6.15)  na'e zei .a zei na'e zei by. livgyterbilma
>        non-A, non-B liver-disease
>        non-A, non-B hepatitis
> 
> 6.17)  na'e zei .a zei na'e zei by. zei livgyterbilma
>        non-A-non-B-hepatitis
> 
> Shouldn't the {.a}s be {.abu}s?

Not currently; zei grabs single words.

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Magic+Words

> It seems to me that {na'e zei .a} refers to a logical connective
> that is not "or".

I'm inclined to agree, but the lujvo coiner gets to define the
meaning.

Regardless, {zei} is a really crappy way to do *anything*, so I'm
not inclined to clarify how to do things with it very much.

-Robin

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