[lojban-beginners] Re: (no subject)

[Daniel E Huston <musicdreamer@tmail.com>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 3:47pm, jkominek@miranda.org wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:26:59PM -0600, Daniel E Huston wrote:
> >  Although Lojban allows one to phrase statements independent of 
> > context--
> >  so far-- as a stage magician I would still use context. In fact, 
> > that's
> >  a key part of how I would do illusions. The human brain perceives
> >  context as well as detail. That's what makes the illusionist's art
> >  possible. I would argue that even though Lojban may be context-free (&
> >  I'm not convinced that it is), Lojban speakers are not!
>
> Er, the rules of the syntax are (a close approximation of) 
> context-free,
> in a strict computer theoretic way. That is the only sense in which it
> is context-free. You're quite right, to understand the meaning of
> utterances, you need context.

Thanks, Jay, for the clarification there. I thought that might be the 
case.

> --
> Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>
> They may be the laws of physics,
> but I still don't trust them.
Daniel E Huston
musicdreamer@tmail.com
(651)329-6608

"It is the character that makes the man... not the clay which is its 
abode."
--Edgar Rice Burroughs