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Re: [lojban] Re: "la" rule




On 13 Nov, 2006, at 19:45, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:41:32PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0500, Robert McIvor wrote:

I will assume you wish to have a rule that does not require
recognizing the presence of the 'forbidden' combinations in the
word.  To do this, one would have to have all cmene  marked with
one of the  name introducers like doi or la (I presume 'doi' is
normally used  like 'hoi' in Loglan to precede a name used as a
vocative.

Yes.

If this  be true, then the parser can strip off the introducer,
and the  remainder up to the consonant and pause is a name (I
presume that a  person without a speech defect would not pause
in the middle of a  name).  The LaPlace problem was in
sequential names. For sequential  names we used the Loglan word
for hyphen 'ci', which added 'ci' to  the list of name markers.

You know, I think that actually works.  Or, at least, I can't
think of any problems off the top of my head.

Call the Lojban name hyphen xi'i; laSTIvn.xi'iLAItl. has no
ambiguity I can see.

However, {doilaSTIvn.} is ambiguous still.  It's not a particularily
hard ambiguity to fix (strip *all* name markers off the front), but
still.  Does Loglan allow that construct?

No. In Loglan Hoi would be used only before a bare name (which could be a predicate or series of predicates e.g O Wild West Wind. What is the purpose of doi before an argument?

-Robin

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