From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:59:08 2010 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list Date: Tue Nov 26 09:49:12 1996 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: place switching cmavo... To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-UIDL: 306b7d53ac1a95fcdc2948b2ab45ecb7 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 964 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Nov 26 09:49:12 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: >Lojbab wrote: > >> > fo le dargu cu klama fa mi do lemi zdani fu le karce > >> The "fu" is not necessary there, since the "fo" has >> already been taken care of. > >I always thought the places were numbered subsequently, and > >fo le dargu cu klama fa mi do lemi zdani le karce > >meant that "le karce" occupies the x4 place as well, I'll quote from the reference grammar places.txt section 3 >What if some sumti have FA tags and others do not? The rule is that after >a FA-tagged sumti, any sumti following it occupy the places numerically >succeeding it, subject to the proviso that an already-filled place is >skipped It is less than firmly defined what it means to have two sumti share the same place when not connected by a logical connective, therefore we definitely wanted to make this NOT happen unless specificaly marked. In addition, it saves unnecessary words for the normal case, which is that trailingt places are relatively incidental. lojbab