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

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

Yes, it is much more the violation of least-surprise that bothers
me, rather than the needed terminator.

-Robin

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:31:59AM -0400, Ian Johnson wrote:
> Only problem with this argument is that afaict it winds up requiring a lot
> of {bu} when it requires any (Pierre's example winds up being {re bu bi bu
> .abu}), whereas {panzi be ny ci mei} is fixed by just one terminator. But
> then, the problem with {panzi be ny ci mei} is that you get in a habit of
> thinking of BY strings as being like KOhA, and ending when the lerfu end or
> when boi appears...and then you're wrong, because what you thought were BY
> strings are actually BY-and/or-PA strings. Which seems rather opposite to
> the whole "regular" thing. (Even though it actually is regular, it doesn't
> *feel* regular at all; does that count for anything?)
> 
> mu'o mi'e .latros.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:52:33PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > On Saturday 19 March 2011 20:19:47 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > > This comes up regularily in conversation for you?  *Seriously*?
> > > > So much so that adding {bu} is a heavy-handed restriction?  I
> > > > don't believe you.
> > >
> > > Just last week
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
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