On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
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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