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

[Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>]

On 28 May 2015, at 23:18, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Well, it does make it impossible to apply punctuation automatically, since the only way that one could do so is to have a script that would parse a variable-lengths string following “sei” to find the word of the selbri class. Not that the application of punctuation is a goal of Lojban.
> 
> Strictly speaking, you can't do that with "lu" and "li'u" either. For example, in "zo lu .e zo li'u valsi”,

Which means what? I don’t read Lojban. (I don’t read Zulu either, but I published “U-Alice Ezweni Lezimanga”.)

As far as I can tell you’ve written “‘e’” or something like that. 


> "lu" and "li'u" are not quoting anything, so an automatic punctuator that didn't know how to parse the sentence would get it wrong. Admittedly you probably won't find many such cases in practice.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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