quoting Vowels
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tcatipax | ".i do ka'e jmina fi .ubu" = you have innate ability to add something to/with u? What am I getting wrong? |
selpa`i | Is it wrong? |
vensa | tcati: who said anything is wrong? |
selpa`i | It parses |
tcatipax | So, my interpretation is correct? I don't know how that makes sense. It's on the front page of wikipedia. The lojban version. |
selpa`i | Could ubu be an abbreviation`? |
Twey | Yes It has to be Otherwise it would be me'o .ubu, or something. |
selpa`i | So maybe the section's name starts with u |
vensa | its short for .uikipedias |
selpa`i | There you go. |
vensa | the sentence before says .uikipedias |
selpa`i | Context. |
vensa | hehe |
tcatipax | Ah. Thanks! |
vensa | je'e |
tcatipax | I mean, ki'e .ui |
vensa | Twey: wouldn lu ubu li'u cut it too? |
Twey | vensa: Not quite the same |
vensa | li ubu seems to cut it Twey: whats the diff? |
Twey | li .ubu is, I think, interpreting it as a mathematical variable with a number value |
vensa | I read me'o is the wuote-equivalent for lerfu strings ok. but y not lu ubu li'u? |
Twey | lu ubu li'u would be quoting it as a whole utterance |
vensa | what does it mean "as a whole utterance"? if it were by instead and I used zo by? |
Twey | No, not lu ubu li'u, indeed |
vensa | If the whole contents of your quote ends up to be one letter ubu), how is that different from zo? |
Twey | lu/li'u is for grammatical utterances Whole grammatical utterances So it's taking that as a whole phrase that someone said, or something like that |
vensa | so,would lo'u le'u be ok with you? |
Twey | No, because that doesn't take grammar into account |
Twey | So ubu would be the two words .u and bu |
vensa | it wont parse the bu? so you're saying zo by is not equivalent to lu ubu li'u? so basically theres no way to quote a U? |
Twey | Not the single character U Sure there is — me'o |
vensa | (except me'o) but by can be quoted in two ways that doesnt seem fair |
Twey | You can also quote with lu/li'u, but that means that it's dereferenced too (although possibly in a different context) |
vensa | another reason to prefer my term for U: u'y |
Twey | Twey doesn't see what's wrong with me'o. |
vensa | nothings *wrong* with it I just dont like the injustice that befalls vowels in lojban :) |