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From: "Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha=EBl Poss wrote:

>
> Le 26 janv. 05, =E0 22:34, Robin Lee Powell a =E9crit :
>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM -0500, Brian Eubanks wrote:
>>> 2. Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary
>>> (2-sumti) predicates.
>>=20
>> Can you tell me how that works with, say, "da klama de di mi do" ?
>>=20
>

Why wouldn't it just be something like

A isa klama-instance
A first-sumti B
A second-sumti C
A third-sumti D
A fourth-sumti E
A fifth-sumti F

B isa KOhA
B ID #1 (da)

C isa KOhA
C ID #2 (de)

etc. (I'm still not sure about the KOhA things, and how you distinguish
da/de/di from mi/do, but...)

> Simplified :
>
> A isa tavla-instance
> A first-sumti B
> A second-sumti C
>
> B isa KOhA
> B ID #1 (da)
>
> C isa KOhA
> C ID #2 (de)
>
> A isa tesete-tavla-instance
> A first-sumti B
> A second-sumti D
>
> D isa KOhA
> D ID #3 (di)
>
> A isa veseve-tavla-instance
> A first-sumti B
> A second-sumti E
>
> E isa KOhA
> E ID #4 (mi)
>
> A isa xesexe-tavla-instance
> A first-sumti B
> A second-sumti F
>
> F isa KOhA
> F ID #5 (do)
>
> Quite verbose, but it works.
>
>

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