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BPFK Section: Quotations

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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:53:08PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> wikidiscuss@lojban.org scripsit:
> > 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.

The horror of trying to talk about the mistake you made in a
previous lo'u ... le'u is just horrifying.

> It's a kludge.

I see that, but it makes sense. Thanks.

-Robin

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