From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Apr 04 13:33:41 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1BAEJE-00058t-3q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:33:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:33:36 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: (arguable) jbofi'e bug: mi ca'o tai klaku Message-ID: <20040404203336.GJ11794@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040404201724.GG11794@digitalkingdom.org> <20040404202210.GH11794@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040404202210.GH11794@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7427 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 Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:17:24PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > jbofihe does not accept > > > > mi ca'o tai klaku > > > > It turns out that whether one accepts this as a jbofihe bug or not > > depends on what one thinks of treading "mo'ini'a mo'ini'a" as > > "mo'ini'a ku mo'ini'a ku", because this is exactly the same > > situation: the other two parsers see the example above as "mi ca'o > > ku tai klaku". > > While I do believe that this is the only justifiable (from the > baseline) parse of that sentence, note that it's likely to be very > confusing to new users, as it does *not* mean "I am continuing to > weep" (ignoring 'tai' because I have no idea how to interpret it > there). > > As such, xorxes, you may want to consider re-writing that sentence > (it's from Alice). Another one: iki'ubo mi noroi pu cmalu tai ti -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