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

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 19 March 2011 15:42:17 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 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.

I think mixing letters and numerals should continue to be allowed. A string of 
letters or numbers is quite common, such as VINs. Currently such a string can 
be stated by saying "me'o" followed by the lervla ja nacyvla and, if 
needed, "boi" at the end, regardless of whether the first character is a 
numeral or not (which makes a difference if it's used as a quantifier rather 
than preceded by "me'o").

A couple of notes:
1. words like "rau" can also be used in lervla strings though they don't 
correspond to any letter.
2. the "a" and "c" in 2001:0:53aa:64c:: (a Teredo IPv6 address) are not abu 
and cy. That is li renonopa pi'e no pi'e mucidaudau pi'e xavogai pi'epi'e. If 
we adopt the convention that "ki'o" in hex means powers of 65536, it's also 
the same with "ki'o" instead of "pi'e", but it has to end with four "ki'o".
3. "li" usually does not make sense with mixed letter-number strings, 
but "me'o" does.

Pierre
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