From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 28 09:47:54 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AEXwg-0008AR-Jl for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:47:54 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:47:54 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More Turner/Nicholas lesson questions Message-ID: <20031028174754.GR24659@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200310270954.EAA02815@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <3F9D25E4.6020807@bilkent.edu.tr> <20031027213405.GR3490@digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20031027195247.02df0e30@pop.east.cox.net> <200310280703.CAA19244@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310280703.CAA19244@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 453 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:14:32AM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > Since Lojban has a machine-parseable grammar, I'm very tempted to > download the grammar and build a parsing program around it to do > this sort of thing - if I can feed it sentences and get this kind > of analysis mechanically, it should help me figure out where my > mistake is when I make one. (Of course, such a program likely > already exists. It's so obvious surely someone has already done > it, and I haven't really gone looking yet to see.) jbofihe is the name of the program. > As for the first, I think maybe I've answered that on my own: "lo > cacra be li pimu" _is_ the same thing as "cacra li pimu", just > transformed from a (partially unspecified) bridi into a sumti - is > that accurate? Yes. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui