From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 05 11:09:41 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EuaUF-0002oI-LZ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:09:23 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EuaUF-0002oB-CG for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:09:23 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:09:23 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ki restriction? Message-ID: <20060105190923.GH4710@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20060105183545.GD4710@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560601051052j1323edc0od2c9c142937ec5c3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560601051052j1323edc0od2c9c142937ec5c3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 11002 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, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:52:21PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 1/5/06, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > The RefGram says: > > > > Note: Modals made with ``fi'o''-plus-selbri cannot be made > > sticky. This is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, restriction. > > > > in Chapter 9, Section 14. > > > > What does this mean? > > > > All three parsers accept "fi'o ki broda da brode". > > That's different, Different from what? > {ki} there is a tag on broda, not on brode. What does that mean? > > 2 out of 3 accept "fi'o broda ki da brode", so it doesn't seem > > to be a grammatical restriction. > > That would be {fi'o broda [ku] ki da brode}. Here the term {ki da} > is a separate term from the term {fi'o broda ku}. ki tags the *following* thing, you're saying? > > I don't get it. > > This is a proposal for how the grammar of tags could be cleaned up: No interest; I'm asking about the current state and why that restriction exists. -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/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.