[lojban] Re: i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:39:10PM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:05:50PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > The sentence from Alice,
> > 
> >     i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a
> > 
> > is disliked by jbofi'e, but both my parser and the official parser
> > are just fine with it.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there's an *actual* problem with it, as such?
> > If so, what?
> 
> simple-tense-modal thingies need to be connected with logical
> connectives;  you can't just list them.  Xorxes eschews this rule
> deliberately, IIRC.
> 
> Proper grammar is {mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a}.

Sorry, should have said this before.

The official parser (and mine, presumably) take it as

    mo'ini'a ku mo'ini'a ku mo'ini'a [ku?]

Since there is no other legal interpretation.

-Robin

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