[lojban-beginners] Re: UI + UI

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 30 pi'e 04 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tijlan .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> The syntax for attitudinals seems to be:
> 
>  [ UI1/UI2/UI3/COI | NAI | CAI | NAI | UI4/UI5 | NAI | CAI | NAI | ... ]
> 
> (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
.skamyxatra

I don't know where you're getting that from.  That syntax doesn't even make any
sense (it seems that someone doesn't know what '|' means), and COI is a free
modifier, not an indicator or attitudinal.  According to the Yacc & BNF
grammars in the CLL, an indicator (superset of attitudinal) is:

    (UI | CAI) [NAI]
     | Y
     | DAhO
     | FUhO

> Based on that, I might interpret
> 
>  .ue ro'o .ui ro'i
> 
> as
> 
>  [ UI1 | - | - | - | UI4 | - | - | - ] + [ UI1 | - | - | - | UI4 | - | - | - ]
> 
> But what about
> 
>  .ue .ui ro'i

They're just UI + UI + UI + UI and UI + UI + UI.  The only grouping of
attitudinals & indicators that takes place is that UI and CAI absorb following
NAIs, and then a series of one or more indicators is reduced into a single
token.  Sub-{selma'o} are semantic divisions only and have no effect on
parsing.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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