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Ummm, this section has already been checkpointed. Did you not get
the mails?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:26:05PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:44:53 -0800, webmaster@lojban.org
> <webmaster@lojban.org> wrote:
> > !! Proposed Definition of zoi
> >
> > ;zoi (ZOI): Non-Lojban quotation. Creates a delimited
> > non-Lojban quotation. The result treated as single Lojban word.
> > "zoi" uses the following word as a delimiting word and quotes
> > all further text until the same word is repeated.
>
> Does "word" need to be defined for this purpose? For example,
> would {zoi ganai this work? I expect not. ganai}

"ga nai" is two words in Lojban. There is no confusion on this
point that I am aware of.

> > The delimiting word is separated from the quoted text by pauses,
> > and must not be found in the written text or spoken phoneme
> > stream.
>
> Is this true for {la'o} quotes as well? It's not mentioned:
>
> > "la'o" uses the following word as a delimiting word and quotes
> > all further text until the same word is repeated. Both
> > delimiter words lose their usual grammatical function, as do any
> > Lojban words that might be inside the quote.

Yes, it's true for {la'o} as well. That's a bit of a bug.

> Also, how does {zoi ci mi klama lezarci le briju ci} parse? as "mi
> klama lezarci le briju"? Or as {"mi klama lezar" le briju ci}? Or as
> invalid text? (More generally, what if the delimiting "word" occurs
> within the text but not with a pause in front?

It is ignored.

> What about {zoi zar mi klama le zarci le briju zar}? (where there
> is a pause but the word is longer than the delimiting word)

It is ignored.

"seperated by pauses" means on both sides.

-Robin

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