[lojban-beginners] Re: FA modals and jboski

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:35:29AM +0300, Yanis Batura wrote:
> Dear Lojbanists!
> 
> The Complete Lojban, Chapter 9, Section 3, states:
> 
> "What if some sumti have FA tags and others do not? The rule is
> that after a FA-tagged sumti, any sumti following it occupy the
> places numerically succeeding it, subject to the proviso that an
> already-filled place is skipped".
> 
> Let's open http://www.lojban.org/jboski/ and enter the following
> phrase:
> 
> fi le dargu cu klama zo'e zo'e zo'e
> 
> The jboski parses the phrase and indicates that the three "zo'e"
> after the "klama" take places as klama2, klama4, klama5. Doesn't
> that contradict the Complete Lojban?

jbofihe (which jboski uses) has quite a few known bugs.  There is no
reason, ever, to assume that it is right and the book is wrong.

-Robin

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