From cowan@ccil.org Thu Jun 17 22:20:30 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 57246 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2004 05:20:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2004 05:20:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2004 05:20:29 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BbBqO-0006KJ-Tt; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:23:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:23:16 -0400 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040618052316.GA24048@ccil.org> References: <20040618021600.GG7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040618021600.GG7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] fragment + i-jek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22544 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > I'm assuming the official parser is wrong; fragments cannot be joined by > ijeks, but wanted to check. It's wrong, or rather obsolete. We used not to distinguish between i and ijek, grammatically, and the fixes to the official parser were lost. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."