Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA06513 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:31:20 +0200 Message-Id: <199512081131.NAA06513@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 8B9A0391 ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:31:21 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 06:30:39 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: new cmavo "ju'e" X-To: cbogart@QUETZAL.COM X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 670 Lines: 14 >Wow, I hadn't thought of this before -- I had thought the different kinds of >connector were inconveniences bemu'i YACCability. Interesting. They were, BUT were not the only possible solution. The precedent was set by JCB who has had a JA/A distinction in the language since well before anyone tried to YACC a grammar. The other way we considered was a simple cmavo determining type of connective followed by only one "series", probably JA. This is in effect what we did for termsets, with NUhU+connective. If we had gone fully to that system, we would have used up fewer cmavo, but the solution we chose was more in keeping with JCB's design philosophy. lojbab