From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 11 09:43:58 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:43:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AqyOu-0006q1-LT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:43:52 -0800 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:43:52 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Another book wierdness. Message-ID: <20040211174352.GM8463@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040211022931.GJ8463@digitalkingdom.org> <20040211124710.54041.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040211124710.54041.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7089 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:47:10AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > 15.7) mi ce'e bau la lojban. pe'e joi do ce'e bau la gliban. > > nu'u casnu > > ( I [plus] in-language Lojban massed-with you [plus] > > in-language English) discuss. > > > > My version of the official parser doesn't handle pe'e or ce'e, > > however it seems Amazingly Unlikely that the sentence is correct > > in any sense, as it uses nu'u to terminate ce'e/pe'e, which the > > grammar does not allow that I can see. > > The sentence is correct without nu'u. Wow. You seem to actually understand termsets! I think you're the only one. Given that the book is broken WRT the grammar in two of the major examples, I suppose this isn't too surprising. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui