Re: BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo
> rlpowell:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:44:23PM -0500, jcowan@reutershealth.com
> wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> >
> > No, I meant what I wrote: it means that while "bu bu" can happen in
> > Lojban, this is not an instance of "bu" applying to "bu", but rather
> > of "bu" applying to "X bu" where X is the preceding word.
> >
> > > Note that the parser *does* accept 'bu bu'.
> >
> > The official parser is definitely buggy here.
>
> On both counts: it doesn't accept 'ky bu bu' or 'broda bu bu' either.
There's a very good reason this doesn't work: the grammar says it shouldn't.
The pre-processing says:
c. Absorb all selma'o BU tokens into the previous token. Relabel the previous token as selma'o BY.
The only other place that BU occurs in grammar.300 is commented out, because it's intended to represent the above rule.
Let me say that again: according to grammar.300, "ky bu bu" is *supposed* to fail. That means we're about to approve a change to the grammar. This is fine by me, because it won't invalidate previous usage and was obviously the intention, but it's my duty as jatna to point this out.
-Robin