From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 13 14:47:28 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:47:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gjka5-0001Yl-90 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:47:09 -0800 Received: from pi.meson.org ([66.134.26.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjkZz-0001Yb-Sl for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:47:08 -0800 Received: (qmail 1409 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2006 22:47:03 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 13 Nov 2006 22:47:03 -0000 Message-ID: <4558F5E6.7010806@kli.org> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:47:02 -0500 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" rule References: <20061113204805.48815.qmail@web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061113204805.48815.qmail@web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 13113 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list John E Clifford wrote: > > But here the range of ambiguity is so small as to allow a short dirty run through alternatives -- > or so it seems intuitively. > But that way lieth madness. After all, humans also can parse English, and with sufficiently advanced software programs can too, so why are we wasting our time with Lojban? Anyway, it's simple enough to cook up a pathological example like lalal. lalal. lalal. lalal. klama Anywhere from one to too many of the places of klama filled, in a variety of ways: {la lal.} {la lal. lalal.}, etc etc... Considering that there are lujvo with >5 places, and some people consider {du} to have a potentially infinite place structure, this isn't really acceptable. ~mark 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.