Re: [bpfk] BPFK work

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
>
> If it is a word in Lojban then it is part of some selma'o.  A few selma'o in
> the current (YACC baseline) language are necessarily processed by a
> preparser, and do not even have stated rules in the grammar.

Obviously we are talking about different things by "text".

What I'm talking about is the chunk of input that is valid in
accordance with the formal grammar, not some other informal notion.

> SEI can handle whatever we want it to handle, by definition, so long as it
> can be stated in Lojban.  It is possible in SEI to state that the current
> text is to be rewritten in reverse and reparsed on that basis, or any other
> silly rule, for that matter.

I'm only talking about the "text" rule in the formal grammar.

> Similarly, the limits on vocatives are whatever we deem them to be.  One can
> probably come up with cases that cause problems under any rule (like what
> happens if you interrupt someone's incomplete vocative or metalinguistic
> statement).  But I suspect that could happen no matter what solution you
> come up with.  (Does Lojban have to accept a Godel's Theorem limitation?)

Not relevant to what I'm talking about, which is the "text" rule of
the formal grammar, and whether the utterances of different speakers
in a conversation should normally be parsed all under one single
"text" or each under a separate "text".

The Lojban tradition, going at least back to your draft-lessons, is
that they are to be parsed each as its own "text", and that is what
makes the most sense. If you are arguing for the other view, you are
the one who has to make the case for it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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