From cjnelson@CYBCON.COM Sun Jun 04 18:14:18 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11425 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 01:14:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jun 2000 01:14:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cybcon.com) (216.190.188.5) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 01:14:17 -0000 Received: from cjnelson (dsl-47.cybcon.com [208.186.117.47]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e551DDq07059; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <00e501bfce8b$5bed0820$2f75bad0@cjnelson> Reply-To: "Clark & Janiece Nelson" To: "John Cowan" , References: <200006041853.OAA13654@locke.ccil.org> Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:14:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "Clark & Janiece Nelson" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2940 mi'e .klark. From: John Cowan > Richard Curnow scripsit: > > > Having had another day to think about this, I think John's suggested > > modification to grammar.300 provides more generality than is actually > > required to fix the problem. > > True. zu'unai le te galfi pe la djan. jai se jetnu la'e le jufra be ne'i la mulno lojbo bangu xi pano pi'e reze be'o po'u zoi gy. It is grammatical for a termset to be placed after a tense or modal tag .gy. .ibo le go'i cu vimcu lo sezna'e le cukta fe'o On the other hand, John's modification would make true the statement from The Complete Lojban Language, chapter 10, section 27: "It is grammatical for a termset to be placed after a tense or modal tag," thus removing a contradiction from the Book. Clark