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Subject: [lojban] Re: i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:05:50PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> The sentence from Alice,
>=20
>     i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a
>=20
> is disliked by jbofi'e, but both my parser and the official parser are
> just fine with it.
>=20
> Does anyone know if there's an *actual* problem with it, as such?  If
> so, what?

simple-tense-modal thingies need to be connected with logical
connectives;  you can just list them.  Xorxes eschews this rule
deliberately, IIRC.

Proper grammar is {mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a}.

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Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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