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

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I wasn't surprised that {vy ci} was taken as a pro-sumti (though I'm not sure that I would have predicted it).  I would be surprised if {ci vy} wasn't 3 v's (whatever v's are).

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

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.

I just want to point out that while {panzi be ny ci mei} is a fairly
degenerate example, this is actually quite a common issue.  The
following is na gendra, for example:

 vy ci nimre cu dunda mi

because "vy ci" is taken as a pro-sumti.  If that doesn't surprise
you at first glance, you've internalized the grammar a lot better
than I have (or anyone else I know; people screw this up pretty
regularily, when it comes up).

-Robin

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