From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 05 11:04:56 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:04:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CQ9OB-0007Sz-GO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:04:47 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:04:47 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] {humour} Fixing the magic words is like... Message-ID: <20041105190447.GT25376@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8952 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 I'm working on the Magic Words BPFK checkpoint (that's all the cmavo that affect the speech stream in general, such as si, zo, lu, fa'o and so on). You can see section 16 of http://lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter19.html for more information, but bear in mind that that list is not complete (what, for example, happens with "zo broda bu"?). It occurs to me that completely solving the magic words problem is very much like writing the perfect algorithm for a game of rock, paper and scissors that along with those three also has hand signs for sticks, swords, grenades, dragons, nuclear bombs, and the final coming of the great Cthulhu. In addition, it's being played by people with seven arms, and any number of combination can be used, and the results are read left-to-right, but these beings have 31 eye stalks that are 2.5 meters long, and any point of view is valid for the left-to-right reading. OK, it's not *actually* that bad, but the image was funny. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/