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

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

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:25:57PM -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org <mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    Someone tried to do:
> >
> >    rlpowell@chain> echo "panzi be ny ci mei" | camxes
> >    text
> >      BRIVLA
> >         gismu: panzi
> >
> >    This doesn't work because it needs boi:
> >
> 
> Lerfu-strings are pro-sumti.  Just like "ny." is a pro-sumti, and
> "ny.ibu" or whatever, so is "ny. ci".

Yes, I understand that, I just think it's horrible.  The usefulness
of "a number starts a new sumti" *far* outways the usefulness of
being able to refer to C3PO without additional effort.

However, see the Mandarin comment; that's potentially of at least
*some* use, but honestly I think requiring an extra sumti or two in
that case (i.e. wrap them in lo'u ... le'u) is perfectly reasonable.

-Robin

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