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Re: [lojban] Context Leapers



In a message dated 9/27/2002 6:34:32 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@lycos.co.uk writes:

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Now a widget that would insert it into a string of quantifiers at some
place other than where it physically lies would be cool, but the rules
& devices necessary to get it to work would be so burdensome to the
grammar and to the mind of the language user that the simplest option
would always be to reformulate so that quantifiers physically lie in
the place they are supposed to.

I came to this conclusion after spending a long time -- months at
least, maybe longer -- trying to work out just the sort of widget
you are asking for. So here mine is the voice of experience not of
blinkered conservatism

>>

Thanks.  I didn't have a lot of hope, but a report on experience is useful to drive home the nails.

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