In a message dated 3/4/2002 2:30:40 PM Central Standard Time, arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes:Am I deluded through overhasting reading, or is this not what Jorge & John I'd rather say "questioning" because I was trying to make a coherent use-mention-free system out of it. It can't be done apparently, so we accept it as being marginally better than English and let it go --it'll rarely cause trouble and we have ways to sort it out when it does. Jorge at least doesn't like the way I've put it even now and keeps coming up with stranger and stranger ways to save the bacon. And, of course, the last bit isn't right at all: my parsers are defective, since they just accepted {la cu gancu} which just won't work by anyone's guesstimation, for anyhting. Lord knows what the parser thinks it is. |