From sentto-44114-2951-960243723-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Mon Jun 05 22:19:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 6095 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 22:19:57 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 22:19:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 12936 invoked by uid 40001); 5 Jun 2000 22:22:04 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 12933 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 22:22:04 -0000 Received: from ci.egroups.com (207.138.41.176) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 22:22:04 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2951-960243723-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.36] by ci.egroups.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2000 22:22:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 25563 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 22:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jun 2000 22:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 22:21:07 -0000 Received: from [212.126.153.16] (helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com ident=root) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12z5F3-0002fE-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:21:06 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 12z3mu-00007E-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:47:56 +0100 To: lojban@egroups.com Message-ID: <20000605214756.A431@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@egroups.com References: <200006041853.OAA13654@locke.ccil.org> <00e501bfce8b$5bed0820$2f75bad0@cjnelson> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <00e501bfce8b$5bed0820$2f75bad0@cjnelson>; from cjnelson@CYBCON.COM on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:14:10PM -0700 From: Richard Curnow MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:47:56 +0100 Reply-To: Richard Curnow Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:14:10PM -0700, Clark & Janiece Nelson wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. Yes indeed - I hadn't noticed that statement in the book in the context of this issue before. Also, in the light of John's email yesterday showing how my minimal scheme would introduce two distinct uses for nu'i, it's pretty clear that John's method is the right one to adopt. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyday Is Kid's Day Dad Only Has One Click Here To Make It Special http://click.egroups.com/1/5038/3/_/17627/_/960243709/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com