From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 06 12:54:09 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1BAwe4-0003C6-3i for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:54:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:54:04 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan." Message-ID: <20040406195404.GK5197@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040406191431.GI5197@digitalkingdom.org> <20040406194922.13318.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040406194922.13318.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7452 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 Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > This sentence: > > > > mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan. > > > > is given as an example in the book, yet prima facia it's wrong: > > there is no other sentence starter to erase back to. > > What exactly is the rule for sa? Can't it be "erase back until you > find a word of the same selamho as the word following sa, or to the > beginning of text if no such word is found"? Currently only the stuff before the comma in your version. Your version makes more sense than what I was trying, though, I think. I can imagine horrible mistakes, though: mi viska le broda sa la broda (hint: LA != LE) Of course, there is no interpretation of sa that allows that example to do the thing the user would lkely want. -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