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Subject: [lojban] Re: rewrite rules
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Certainly, any machine handling of the semantics of lojban texts would 
deploy many such rewrite rules to simplify and canonicalize the grammar.
There are so many alternate ways to express the same thing, and you don't 
want to have to handle them all separately.

I think there is some value in starting lojban lessons with the simplest, 
most useful, most universal words the language provides.
Knowing the equivalences would help a lot in identifying what is 
indispensible and what is mere syntactic sugar.

mihe bremenli

On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 2:51:50 AM UTC-7, Benoit Neil wrote:
>
> coi ro do
>
> Interesting. Just for my information, do you think that those equivalents 
> could be used...
>
>    - ...to ease machine interpretation of Lojban texts?
>    - ...to help writing simpler "beginners Lojban lessons", by providing 
>    means to learn fewer constructs and words?
>
> ki'e
> .i co'o
>
> -- 
> Sukender
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Certainly, any machine handling of the semantics of lojban=
 texts would deploy many such rewrite rules to simplify and canonicalize th=
e grammar.<br>There are so many alternate ways to express the same thing, a=
nd you don&#39;t want to have to handle them all separately.<br><br>I think=
 there is some value in starting lojban lessons with the simplest, most use=
ful, most universal words the language provides.<br>Knowing the equivalence=
s would help a lot in identifying what is indispensible and what is mere sy=
ntactic sugar.<br><br>mihe bremenli<br><br>On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at =
2:51:50 AM UTC-7, Benoit Neil wrote:<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: =
1ex;"><div dir=3D"ltr">coi ro do<div><br></div><div>Interesting. Just for m=
y information, do you think that those equivalents could be used...</div><d=
iv><ul><li>...to ease machine interpretation of Lojban texts?</li><li>...to=
 help writing simpler &quot;beginners Lojban lessons&quot;, by providing me=
ans to learn fewer constructs and words?</li></ul></div><div>ki&#39;e</div>=
<div>.i co&#39;o</div><div><br></div><div>--=C2=A0</div><div>Sukender</div>=
</div></blockquote></div>

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