Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tKB1m-0000ZUC; Mon, 27 Nov 95 23:23 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 8047EAA5 ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:23:54 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:21:48 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Colourless green ideas X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511232038.PAA21961@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 23, 95 08:25:29 pm Content-Length: 736 Lines: 17 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.