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Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies



In a message dated 3/3/2002 10:43:46 AM Central Standard Time, rob@twcny.rr.com writes:


And you wouldn't want {abu ly ibu cy ebu} to evaluate, so you'd put a
{me'o} in front.


No, I wouldn't, because all the examples I have (the Refgram, 17.2.1, 2) do without the {me'o}.  You can say that spelling is a special context or you can say that the Refgram screwed this up worse, but it still does it this way and I would follow it.

<A lerfu or lerfu string on its own is a pronoun. Always.

> No, {a} is a sumti conjunction, {ai} is in UI, {n} is not a Lojban
> _expression_.

You're having fun mixing up levels, aren't you? Fine: any string of BY,
including (any selma'o)+BU, which appears outside of mekso, is a
pronoun, and so it refers to the referent of the pronoun. Do you agree
with this?>

No level mixing, just the issue of what refers to what -- that is use-mention confusion on a general level.  But, yes, it is fun to catch someone in it.  I do almost agree with what you say, except for spelling and 17.2.3 (and the implications of 17.10.6)