From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 12 18:36:04 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0q7G-0003Zm-2e for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:35:46 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0q7F-0003Zf-P3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:35:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:35:45 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Is Lojban a CFG? (was Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban) Message-ID: <20060713013545.GF18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20060713003616.GD18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12167 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 Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:24:34PM -0400, Jonathan Gibbons wrote: > >3. The lanugage would be *very* unwieldy as a CFG: way to many > >syllables would be expended in required required terminators. > > I'm not suggesting dropping the concept; I'm suggesting making > them optional, and defining a rule or two on the semantic side of > things to disambiguate what would be ambiguous. "on the semantic side of things" is inherently bad, to my mind. What comes out of the parser should be the way a human would process it if at all possible; in the cases we're talking about, a human would say "na'i" or "ki'a"; I expect the parser to as well. -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.