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Magic Words

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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:49:00PM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> Re: Magic Words
> What do we do about SI, SA and ZOI?

Forgot some issues here:

> Option 3:
>
> * SI is NOT an allowed ZOI delimiter.
>
> * SI after ZOI eats through delimiters and text seperately, so
> four SI in a row are required to erase a ZOI.
>
> * SA+ZOI puts you back in the ZOI. Since SI can NOT be a ZOI
> delimiter, SA+ZOI+SI is the fastest way to delete the whole thing.
>
> * This would mean that the only case where WORD + SA + same
> category as WORD + SI doesn't == nothing would be with ZO.

  • Furthermore, ZOI+SI == nothing, rather than being the beginning of

a ZOI clause that requires a 5th dan Lojban black belt to get out
of ("zoi .y. si .y. .y. si si si si si").

> I have a strong preference for option three; it gives the most
> user friendliness, IMO.

The new point I just added is one of the major reasons I prefer
this.

-Robin