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Re: [lojban] Re: a new kind of fundamentalism



In a message dated 10/5/2002 9:15:09 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@lycos.co.uk writes:

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Technically, the BNF 'grammar' is more like a grammaticality-checker
than a true grammar. That is, it will tell you whether or not a
string is well-formed Lojban, but it won't tell you what it means.

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though I shouldn't say so, this is a hairsplitting technicality in this discussion.  OK, The BNF 'grammmar' (but isn't it in fact the yacced grammar) is the final authority on syntax.  The further move to connection with meaning -- something which exists for no langauge that I know of (including machine languages) -- is what jboske is largely about.  And making that move is greatly aided by having the syntax fixed (and the vocab, too, of course).

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