BPFK Section: Quotations
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:40:47AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
>
> > Can you give any validation for this, besides your memories of
> > the intent of the Founders? Not that that's not sufficient, but
> > I'm curious. It seems to violate the purpose of lo'u...le'u
> > *entirely*, and disagree with the Red Book.
>
> The idea is that if a text can be quoted by lu...li'u, it can also
> be quoted by lo'u...le'u. Therefore, embedded zoi and lo'u...le'u
> quotations should be processed even though everything else is not.
But nested lu...li'u quotes work in lu...li'u, but they don't (in
the same way) in lo'u...le'u. Nothing has grammatical function in
lo'u...le'u; isn't that the *point*?
Umm, wait a minute. "embedded zoi and lo'u...le'u"?? Embedded
lo'u...le'u *don't* work in lo'u...le'u! The first le'u terminates
the quote, because none of the words in lo'u...le'u are processed
(except, apparently, zo and zoi).
Now I'm really confused.
-Robin
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