Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:

On 26 May 2015, at 22:57, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The terminator for "sei" is "se'u", but it is very often elidible.

Well, it’s YOUR language, guys, but that pretty much defeats the predictability of the system. If you have sei/se’u alongside lu/li’u, why can on be elided but the other not?

"li'u" can be elided sometimes too, but less often. The reason is that the type of things that sei-se'u can bracket is much more restricted than the type of things lu-li'u can bracket.

 

>  Is the position of a closing em-dash predictable?
>
> Yes, but you need to parse the sentence.

Then it’s not predictable.

How does that folow? What do you mean by "predictable" then? Given any grammatical utterance, you can know without any ambiguity where the em-dash goes.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.