Re: [lojban] Anyone remember what lerfu strings are actually *for*?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember why this is a fundamental type?  I'm guessing
> "complicated mekso shit", but I can't even think of any examples
> there.

lerfu strings have the same uses as single lerfu, basically as
pronouns: For example "by fy" for "la baupla fuzykamni", or "fy by
.ibu" for FBI.

The real problem is not lerfu strings but allowing numerals to mix
with lerfu strings, which causes unwanted fails like the one you found
in "panzi be ny ci mei". In the relatively rare cases where you do
need to include a numeral in an acronym this could be done with the
lerfu "pa bu", "re bu", "ci bu", etc. so you could do ".ubu rebu" if
you wanted to translate "U2" as an acronym.

See "number and lerfu-string" in
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/zasni+gerna+cenba+vreji

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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