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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar



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