From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:59:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 26018 invoked from network); 26 Nov 1996 03:45:36 -0000 Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 26 Nov 1996 03:45:36 -0000 Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.1F37ABB7@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 4:45:33 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:43:19 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: place switching cmavo... X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 964 Lines: 29 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