Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

At 11:39 PM 05/19/2000 +0100, Richard Curnow wrote:

>	pu zi gi le masti gi le vensa mi klama le zdani
>
>Unfortunately not!  The pu is 'absorbed' into the tense associated with
>the 'gi' construct, so the whole pu..vensa phrase becomes the x1 of klama,
>instead of 'mi', which becomes x2.

I agree that this is a serious problem.  A quick-and-dirty fix, involving
no new cmavo and only one new grammar rule, is to add

	mod_head_490 term_set_85

as a new alternative for modifier_84.  Then the above example can be written:

	pu nu'i zigi le masti gi le vensa nu'u mi klama le zdani

This only extends the language and does not prohibit anything that existed
before.  Yacc does not complain.

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