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Subject: [lojban] Re: Suggestions Sought: NORALUJV and jbovlaste
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In-Reply-To: <20030313044745.GS25165@digitalkingdom.org> from "Robin Lee Powell" at Mar 12, 2003 08:47:45 PM
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Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> > > fazyta'a                annoy+talk
> > > fanza+tavla:  chatter:   x1 = tavla1 (talk) = fanza 1 (pest), x2 =
> > > tavla2 (talked to), x3 = tavla3 (talk subject), x4 = tavla4 (talk
> > > language), x5 = fanza2 (annoyed)
> OK, we're obviously talking about different standards.
> 
> x1 is a chatterer who chatters at x2 about x3 in language x4

Oh, I understand.  In that case, you want to use the stuff in the parens
to generate this:

	x1 is a talk/pest with talked-to x2 with talk-subject x3
		with talk-language x4 with annoyed x5

This is not totally smooth English, but it is a mere matter of copy-editing
to make it so.  Break the place structure at the commas, use regular
expressions to extract the useful stuff, and assemble it according to
the template "x1 is a ... with ... x2 with ... x3 with ..." etc. etc.
It would be an easy hack to change the third word to "an" appropriately.

> And, by the way, fanza2 is clearly x2 of fazyta'a (i.e. equal to
> tavla2), not x5.

Quite right.  That sort of semantic error *has* to be corrected by a human
being, of course.

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