From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 13 14:14:48 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gjk4U-0000sl-0j for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:30 -0800 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.177]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gjk4O-0000sd-UU for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:29 -0800 Received: from mac.com (smtpin04-en2 [10.13.10.149]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kADMENCw021316 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.33] (bas12-ottawa23-1177568568.dsl.bell.ca [70.48.69.56]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kADMELuF010560 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:22 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <4558E466.80006@lojban.org> References: <20061113204805.48815.qmail@web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4558E466.80006@lojban.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <525A773F-A307-43AF-9603-3E18C02C42FA@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Robert McIvor Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" rule Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:14:19 -0500 To: lojban-list@lojban.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 13108 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rmcivor@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list And the rule was altered to cover the LaPlace situation. I believe the current solution allows unambiguous parsing of names (in Loglan), and has only the restriction that names end with a consonant and a pause. On 13 Nov, 2006, at 16:32, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > John E Clifford wrote: > (I don't think the {lAItl} can be read as a sumti {lai tl}). > > Yes it can. > > la steven. lai tl. klama > > could mean that Steven is going to the Tulls. > > Reminding you of the olden days, my criticism of JCB's rules > focused on the mathematician "LaPlace" (this was mentioned in my > review of the last edition of Loglan 1) > > lojbab > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list- > request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, > or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.