From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jul 13 11:40:04 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G166E-0007Sq-QW for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:39:46 -0700 Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G166C-0007Sj-Rz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:39:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AE573920 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02684-10 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [65.77.47.138] (baxter.metacarta.com [65.77.47.138]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354DF7391D for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:39:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B6936D.8@ropine.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:39:41 -0400 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060423) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Is Lojban a CFG? (was Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban) References: <20060713013545.GF18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060713025542.GH18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560607130709u3fef60c5ubd8f638c795685c0@mail.gmail.com> <20060713165833.GP18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560607131054n4c96b9fcm4777599ae02fa80b@mail.gmail.com> <20060713180036.GU18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060713180907.GV18359@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560607131128o2b3d54dco5846950079ec4368@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560607131128o2b3d54dco5846950079ec4368@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at metacarta.com X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 12185 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I am now envisioning some kind of grammar where you could say A -(2)-> x y B -(3)-> x y and then, given a string "x y", the parser would say "this has a 40% chance of being A and a 60% chance of being B". (This wouldn't be useful as an *official* Lojban grammar, but some day it might be useful as a way for a parser to tell a Lojban student, "officially that means B, but a lot of people are likely to mistake that for A; perhaps you should rephrase it?") 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.