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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:36:21PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> You're right, bad example. Consider this one:
>
> {lu zo zoi lo'u da le'u li'u}
>
> is valid. But:
>
> {lo'u zo zoi lo'u da le'u le'u}
>
> is not valid if the {zoi} is active, even if {le'u} is changed to
> {zo le'u}, because the zoi quote is never closed.

Right, so if zoi is allowed in lo'u...le'u, we must also allow "zo
zoi", which means that if we want to talk about broken zoi quotes we
end up with interesting messes like:

mi pu cusku lo'u zo zoi zo zoi zoi zoi Quux zoi boi le'u

to indicate that I had previously said "zoi zoi Quux boi" by
accident.

I would much, much rather drop zoi from lo'u...le'u (as I believe
the Red Book indicates, but grammar.300 disagrees with) and have
instead:

mi pu cusku lo'u zoi zoi le'u ce'o zoi zoi Quux! zoi ce'u zo boi

(with this obviously being a degenerate example; in practice I think
most speakers would just do:

mi pu cusku lo'u zoi zoi li'o boi le'u

)

-Robin