From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 18 09:50:36 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B41f4-00025S-VJ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:50:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:50:30 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Official parser problem? Message-ID: <20040318175030.GG11847@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <14bf40148721.14872114bf40@imap.epfl.ch> <20040318081251.GB11847@digitalkingdom.org> <20040318115656.GE5444@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040318115656.GE5444@ccil.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7263 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:56:56AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > > > That's how I, and others, have been using it. The difference > > between the two definitions (for purposes of modifying my > > experimental grammar) is not large, but John's is actually easier to > > encode. > > It also has the advantage that you can make substitutions like this: > > mi klama le broda brode brodi sa lo broda brode brodi That's easy to fix; make 'sa' eat the following token: mi klama le broda brode brodi sa le lo broda brode brodi Don't know that that's a *good* solution, just pointing it out. > > I think Greg's is much more human-friendly, though. > > To the speaker or to the listener? Both; I don't think people easy think in grammatical categories while speaking or listening, although I'll grant that I have a pretty good intuitive sense of which words are in selma'o together. -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