From phma@oltronics.net Mon Aug 13 16:13:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 23:13:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 11931 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 23:13:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 23:13:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.92) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 23:13:13 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id CFF103C539; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: (C)V'{i|u}V Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:09:24 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010812225206.D204@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> <20010813222146.B646@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> In-Reply-To: <20010813222146.B646@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108131909240F.01119@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat 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). phma