Re: [jboske] scope issues

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> Since the syntax was created independently of meaning, I am loath
> to attribute semantic significance to it. Furthermore, the
> official syntax is so perverse and peculiar that one shouldn't
> be obliged to learn it. It should be sufficient that one learns
> which strings are and aren't licit, without learning the official
> generative rules. In technical terms, it should be sufficient
> that one learns a grammar that is weakly equivalent in generative
> capacity to the official grammar.

I agree entirely.

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