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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote: > Am 08.10.2012 16:10, schrieb Jorge Llambías: > > (The grammar for q..q as written is ambiguous, it allows the same > > string to be generated in more than one way, it should really be "q X* > > q", with X being any phoneme other than q.) > > That still allows the same names though. Yes. > Isn't it weird to have a > language that is almost exclusively CV (with some CC* in it) to allow > VVVVVVV in names? q...q is kind of a counterpart to Lojban's ZOI, used to quote "foreign" stuff. >The empty name is funny, however. "la qqa" could > probably be shortened to "la qa" I think. That would make it ambiguous, as "la qa qa" could be either a full sentence or just la q(a q)a co ma'a xrxe