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BPFK Section: Quotations

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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:11:35PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Which leads to the next question: *are* zoi quotes legal inside
> lo'u...le'u? I'm pretty sure that the stuff in C16 S19 says that
> they're *not*, because lo'u quotes all the following Lojban words,
> including zoi, but can't take non-Lojban words. So the zoi gets
> eaten, and then there's a bunch of crap that doesn't parse:
>
> mi cusku lo'u zoi zoi AAck! zoi le'u
>
> My parser actually has no problems with this, and I'm pretty sure
> that's a bug.

In fact, all three parsers accept this with no apparent problems.

That doesn't change the fact that The Red Book seems to think it's a
bug, though.

-Robin