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



Yeah, digit strings with lerfu are mentioned only in passing, and with
no examples, in the CLL in 18.19.6-7.  I agree that those are not
nearly as useful as lerfu strings with digits (unless you are trying
to write a base 36 number, or something???)
          --gejyspa



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Then you get to be surprised, because it is not; it's a "ci vy"
> amount of lemons:
>
> rlpowell@chain> echo "ci vy nimre cu dunda mi" | camxes
> text
>   sentence
>   |- sumti5
>   |  |- number
>   |  |  |- CMAVO
>   |  |  |     PA: ci
>   |  |  |- CMAVO
>   |  |        BY: vy
>   |  |- BRIVLA
>   |        gismu: nimre
>   |- CMAVO
>   |     CU: cu
>   |- bridiTail3
>      |- BRIVLA
>      |     gismu: dunda
>      |- CMAVO
>            KOhA: mi
>
> i.e. {ci vy nimre} is the x1, and {mi} is the x2.
>
> -Robin
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:57:45PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
>> 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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