On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0800, tk1@despammed.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> [Robert LeChevalier:]
> > over to TLI. Prothero in particular invented the use of the "error" token
> > to define elidable terminators which is a key feature that TLI Loglan and
> > Lojban both share. Prothero expressly gave us permission in case it proved
>
> Apologies for hijacking this thread, but upon hearing about this use of the
> "error" token, I am starting to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Specifically, I
> fear that using such strange hacks will make it harder to explain (and
> grasp) intuitively when certain words can be elided, without referring to a
> specific 1970's parsing technology.
>
> (I am thinking of utterances such as ".i le gerku jersi le mlatu fa'o"
> without "cu" before "jersi" -- this can be `intuitively' construed as a
> garden-path utterance for "The dog chases the cat", but will be rejected by
> an LALR(1) parser.)
This is a feature. That sentence actually means "The doggedly
chaser. The cat."
What exactly is your complaint?
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