From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Apr 30 14:33:23 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 28610 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 21:33:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2004 21:33:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 21:33:23 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01582; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:33:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:33:19 -0400 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040430213319.GG11141@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040430211148.GY14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430211148.GY14939@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Official parser and "la by" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22068 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > The official parser accepts > > la xyby ly ty cu cmene lo cfila be lo skami > > I'm curious as to why, when "la xyby" is invalid, but not curious enough > to go find out myself. Part of its dimwitted morphology algorithm. It believes that words ending in XCy where X is anything and C is any consonant are cmene, because it disregards y's in assigning most selma'o. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. --blurb for Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi