From cowan Sat Mar 6 22:58:09 2010 Subject: Re: Colourless green ideas To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) From: cowan Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:21:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511232038.PAA21961@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 23, 95 08:25:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 690 Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Mon Nov 27 16:21:48 1995 X-From-Space-Address: cowan Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > For the grammar (= language rule system) to be complete we need to > know the meaning of every possible sentence. At present we don't, > and we can fix this by working out what some previously not understood > construction means, or by rewriting the grammar to rule out the > offending sentence. I applaud this in general (or I wouldn't be writing the reference grammar), but I'm willing to except the MEX grammar, since that is, as it were, embedding a different language into Lojban, expressed with Lojban tokens but not really part of Lojban, and standardized, as it were, by a different authority. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.