On 13 Nov, 2006, at 20:06, Robert McIvor wrote:I believe I remember that 'coi' identifies the author of something. In Loglan the
canonical form would correspond to Coi La Bab, where Bab is the name. However, a sort of usage sprung up which used the equivalent of Coi Bab,if Bab himself was the author and Coi la Bab if one were citing a third party. The equivalent of 'coi is not a name marker in Loglan, so the 'la' would be
considered the marker to be stripped
On 13 Nov, 2006, at 19:52, Robin Lee Powell wrote:On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:45:24PM -0800, 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?Replying to myself, this is a bigger problem than I thought. Is {coi.lanam.} == {coi la nam} or {coi lanam}? Does Loglan have this sort of construct?I am not sure what is meant by 'coi' so I cannot answer this. If it were our Hoi, it would be hoi lanam.-Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list- request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/ lsg2/, or ifyou're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list- request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or ifyou're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.