Re: [lojban] Re: Robin Confused (was Re: Re: "pu" versus "pu ku" and LR(1))

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Bob LeChevalier scripsit:

> puze'a means  "pu da ku ze'a de ku" appropriately places in the sentence
> for some values of da and de.  I thought you had explicitly defined
> things this way in the red book.

No, on the contrary.  The Red Book defines tense+ku in terms of selbri
tense, and puze'a has a unitary definition.  We do not know if puze'aku
is synonymous with puku ze'aku or not.

> That's the game we played with PA, as I understand it, and now we have 
> debates over the meaning of some of those undefined strings.

Yes, but that's better that a bunch of rules that are more complex than
they are worth.  IMHO, we made the right tradeoff for PA, the wrong
one for tense.

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