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Re: response to Steven Belknap on language baselines and stability (long)



Because the grammar of whatever is non-standard is as unrestricted as the
capability of non-standardness, there is no cmavo that could unfailingly
cover the territory.  za'e is pretty restricted and does not solve any
grammar problems.

The best way, which would handle MOST non-standard usages, is to put
whatever non-standard text in the "questionable Lojban" quotes "lo'u" and
"le'u".  If you do this at the beginning of a sentence or text that will not
meet that standard parse, then the entire quote gets treated as a sumti
(which is valid as a standalone element in an utterance, and/or surreounded
by ".i"s and "ni'o"s when emneeded in text.

lojbab