True. Most magic words are local, though. Only ZOI and LOhU (and LU) can have a large extent. And magic is comparatively rare, whereas NU/NOI is extremely common and I fear a large amount of text would be broken by changing the semantics of .i after abstractions.
--On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jacob Thomas Errington <tsani@mail.jerrington.me> wrote:On 07/15/2015 09:51 AM, la durka wrote:
We can't really just scan the text for {.i} as it may be quoted, specifically by {lu...li'u}.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.
Or it could be grabbed by a magic word: ".i bu" ".i zei da", etc. Because of magic words, there's not much you can do with a Lojban text by just scanning for words, you always need to parse first in order to know whether the words are fulfilling their usual functions or not.mu'o mi'e xorxes
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