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Re: [lojban] xo'a
At 02:24 PM 12/1/02 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Sunday 01 December 2002 14:08, And Rosta wrote:
> > pier:
> > > Adding {xo'a ... hoa} to the grammar would require adding the entire
> > > Loglan grammar to the Lojban one, and more besides, since the toggle
> > > could occur in a variety of places in a sentence and we would have to
> > > figure out what happens to grouping rules, terminators, etc. when
> > > switching languages in the middle of a tanru. If we can't even publish a
> > > list of corresponding cmavo, there's no way we can add {xo'a}
> >
> > i had assumed that the parser would simply switch off when it hits xo'a
> > and switch on again when it hits hoa. Was that assumption wrong?
>
>How would you handle the following?:
>
>.i la djig. cusku lu doi talen xo'a nu jimta lu .i le vi po jimta hoa pu
>spaji la talen.
>
>The languages are close enough that you can intermix them, but different
>enough that this causes problems. A Romance example (since I know very little
>Loglan): Ele enviou-me uma mensagem, que j'ai lue. Should the last word be
>"lu"? The word "message" is masculine in French.
I would suspect that the xo'a ... hoa string would be taken as non-Lojban
"text" (and would be a rule at that level of the grammar). You would not
mix languages freely in one sentence (except in the limited ways in which a
"text" structure can be embedded inside a sentence). A transition dialect
with Lojban cmavo and TLI gismu (as Belknap is asking for) would require a
different toggle, but would require no grammar change at all (the toggle
words could be UI).
lojbab
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