Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: (C)V'{i|u}V

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:09:24 -0400

On Monday 13 August 2001 17:21, Richard Curnow wrote:
>> And just to verify 3 more corner cases relating to commas ...
>
> 1. How is more than one comma in a row treated? Is it equivalent to 1
> comma, or illegal?
>
> 2. How is a comma at the start of a word treated? Is it ignored, or
> illegal?
>
> 3. How is a comma at the end of a word treated? Ignored or illegal?
> (Presumably the same answer as 2.)

I consider a comma at the end of a word to be a punctuation mark, and 
therefore ignored. However, if a cmene ends with a comma and no period, that 
is an error: it means that it is run together with the next word. Thus:
doi djan. mi tavla do (canonical form)
doi djan mi tavla do (acceptable)
doi djan., mi tavla do (also acceptable)
doi djan, mi tavla do (not acceptable; "djanmi" is not a word).

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