From lojban+bncCK30vq5WEOiIuekEGgThkszA@googlegroups.com Wed Jan 12 16:16:56 2011 Received: from mail-px0-f189.google.com ([209.85.212.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PdArz-0005rc-Mf; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:56 -0800 Received: by pxi19 with SMTP id 19sf112535pxi.16 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-disposition; bh=GMGECgjZ0xaPeJPf3ZBDfILhj04YzN93kNeDPDWJKSI=; b=Yalo6+ct91bYjRKxb4pU5ejZFhcetMbmnO25x+NtXRhFWoVnkLvsPoWVcoqpAvAmWk 5TYKlLvijSQol03RkWYKwdzysR2gyX/857pCZfuqmbxUjx2uFfOj5WHTCQZyOf2BO8QA 4Ri44QpAJs8H4fjR+xOUnfJ6tmuZxqzKlS470= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; b=eIet0a+xexZHo3yioduf4rbsVRzNwB2MHAflCRfNxKs8BAuzyue1OORyPK9pUeZInG 8XlTq4oQuXFQAF9GjTArq0ZCd5T9asSS0vqM+ANgowEKx2RGGL57vzG1GAyQePylcGRj VvYWD4jiP2Wdxhry8xuSaM2BIo+4R90nI4hm0= Received: by 10.142.180.18 with SMTP id c18mr33224wff.39.1294877800178; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:40 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.121.31 with SMTP id t31ls1383970wfc.3.p; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.154.2 with SMTP id b2mr311226wfe.52.1294877798294; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.154.2 with SMTP id b2mr311225wfe.52.1294877798269; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (digitalkingdom.org [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p40si1334126wfc.6.2011.01.12.16.16.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.234; Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PdArk-0005rS-Ni for lojban@googlegroups.com; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:16:36 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] any-word-SA-handling clarification Message-ID: <20110113001636.GT2132@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20110112141124.GA866@alice.local> <20110112184918.GP2132@digitalkingdom.org> <20110112234509.GB1262@alice.local> <20110113000444.GS2132@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:14:01PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote: > With all this talk of {sa}, what about {ra}? It seems like it > would have a similar set of issues. No, not at all. With {sa} you have to be able to emit arbitrary bullshit and at the end it's still grammatical. At the *parser* level. {ra} issues are purely semantic; how to parse it is not in question. > ta'onai when I see {sa} I usually assume something like "cut all > the words back to the last {.i}". Is coding something like that > in PEG possible? Trivial. That would be a *fantastic* version of {sa} from a parsing perspective. Sooooo much better than the current version. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.