Re: [lojban] Re: {tu'e...tu'u} in NU

[Jacob Thomas Errington <tsani@mail.jerrington.me>]

On 07/15/2015 09:51 AM, la durka wrote:

In general I think it's a bad idea to change {.i} so that it doesn't always start a new sentence. The major problems are that it deals a heavy blow to the whole concept of elidible terminators, if you can't "just start a new sentence" to get out of a deeply nested pit of abstractions; and it means it's no longer possible to quickly scan a text for {.i} to separate the sentences -- you need to parse the entire text to find the sentence boundaries.

We can't really just scan the text for {.i} as it may be quoted, specifically by {lu...li'u}. Indeed, lu-quotes already form a construct that creates a new "level zero" for sentences; giving us this flexibility in any bridi context would merely act as a generalization of this existing capability.

That said, I'm in favour of allowing tu'e..tu'u within NU, and really, at the beginning of any bridi.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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