From sentto-44114-2900-959886136-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Thu Jun 01 19:00:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 32410 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 19:00:30 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 19:00:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 29756 invoked by uid 40001); 1 Jun 2000 19:02:18 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 29753 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 19:02:18 -0000 Received: from mw.egroups.com (207.138.41.167) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 19:02:18 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2900-959886136-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by mw.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Jun 2000 19:02:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 21153 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 19:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Jun 2000 19:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 19:02:15 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09564; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:02:13 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <3936B311.172FF7D6@reutershealth.com> Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Cc: Lojban List References: <4.2.2.20000520151902.00ac1a60@127.0.0.1> From: John Cowan 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: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:01:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At 11:39 PM 05/19/2000 +0100, Richard Curnow wrote: > pu zi gi le masti gi le vensa mi klama le zdani > >Unfortunately not! The pu is 'absorbed' into the tense associated with >the 'gi' construct, so the whole pu..vensa phrase becomes the x1 of klama, >instead of 'mi', which becomes x2. I agree that this is a serious problem. A quick-and-dirty fix, involving no new cmavo and only one new grammar rule, is to add mod_head_490 term_set_85 as a new alternative for modifier_84. Then the above example can be written: pu nu'i zigi le masti gi le vensa nu'u mi klama le zdani This only extends the language and does not prohibit anything that existed before. Yacc does not complain. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WRITERS WANTED! Themestream allows ALL writers to publish their articles on the Web, reach thousands of interested readers, and get paid in cash for their work. Click below: http://click.egroups.com/1/3840/3/_/17627/_/959886130/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com