From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 04 14:49:21 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fxsll-00031H-PY for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:21 -0700 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fxslk-00031A-U8 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:21 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1849394ugd for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fcnJlcGOZ7M64bMPmv+R1yKVq+o2PQciexSLjwCDVtE3f/T90gDbSdcNsmWKuHF6uR9NMSxWUaRbgr+ugksTEXFqwdVCgAOfVPdZKi/T4MOoUitFE8eJ4xfpV6aX2lWxhRUAvWhp8gRVR8ytz+RcXB/GdwnjYlqxctWZtS4yL8Y= Received: by 10.67.93.6 with SMTP id v6mr6972224ugl; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.30.12 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:49:18 -0400 From: "Jonathan Gibbons" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: RK-like diagramming: Anyone interested? In-Reply-To: <44AADE4C.3080601@hypermetrics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44AAC810.2070300@hypermetrics.com> <44AADE4C.3080601@hypermetrics.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-archive-position: 3329 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jonored@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I was under the impression that that's one of the special things about this language - that a particular syntactic structure associated unambiguously with a particular semantic structure. So, for instance, a tanru is a seltau/tertau pair, where either may be itself a tanru, and the semantic meaning of that syntactis structure is that the seltau in some manner modifies or restricts the meaning of the tertau... so a parse tree that displays the nonterminal for a tanru and has as leaves the seltau and tertau /would/ emphasize the semantic meaning.