From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 13 13:43:38 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjjaJ-0008Hc-Cr for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:19 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjjaE-0008HL-8N for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:19 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id c2so1103726ugf for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dp7DJ+6kVjZfsKCmsupEBURm2gjaOfts1sTIFGXQNNLToXz80u1k7PhCRHNtzN91tkoG10yTRwLTz4CMlaiuapAwHHZmWZwyVtGxR7Itw71wtO3s6pKrPVgaSSOckk/7ujiyT8kWA1U1ALMk79uiPhyNk7ltBTEdWf8jVTObMjo= Received: by 10.78.201.15 with SMTP id y15mr199528huf.1163454190548; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.3 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:43:10 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" rule In-Reply-To: <4558E2A1.9010907@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <325816428.20061113190842@mail.ru> <20061113171203.GD24729@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4558B5C3.9020006@kli.org> <87d57rxf3v.fsf@gmail.com> <4558E2A1.9010907@lojban.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 13106 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 11/13/06, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > the numerous > unofficial parser projects have been reinventing the wheel in a variety > of different ways, to different ends, and haven't (to my knowledge) been > incorporating advances in the diagnostics. > > But if people were regularly running their text through checkers that > caught such errors, I indeed think that people would stop making the > errors. Human beings don't parse like machines, and thus accept things > that a machine might not find legal. That just means that we need > machines to help teach us to follow some of the rules. > > lojbab In my opinion, easy-to-use computer prosthetics embedded into a Firefox extension would be a major milestone for the language. It would be as if we had a native speaker to teach us. Admittedly, Lojban is not a computer language, but it has unique advantages for computer diagnostics, and therefore computers should be our teachers. We should be able to use ubiquitous built-in Lojban parsing tools to prompt us every time we make a mistake in Lojban. -Eppcott 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.