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wikidiscuss@lojban.org scripsit:

> C19 S16 of the red book says:
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> "lo'u" quotes all following words up to a "le'u" (but not a "zo le'u").
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> Umm, *WTF*?
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> So {lo'u mi nelci zo le'u} is an error without another le'u? I thought the whole point of lo'u ... le'u was to quote arbitrary Lojban words without processing.

Yeah, except there was no way to get a le'u in. So you couldn't nest them.
Hacking zo specially lets you do that, sort of.

It's a kludge.

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