[lojban] On parser extensions.

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

In the wiki page for "The 17 tallest men", bancus noted that

    le pabi'ipazeva'e be leni traji leka xadni clani nanmu

works well.  Unfortunately, he did this with my help, and I was using my
new parser.

It is probably worthwhile for you to take a minute to try to parse that
sentence, *without* an automated parser, before going further.

xorxes pointed out that "pabi'ipazeva'e" is currently not grammatical,
whether you shove all the words together or not.  :-)  The reason seems
to be that the current parsers don't wait long enough, and try to
interpret things as "le pa bi'i <something>".

My questions are:

1.  Did any of you have that kind of trouble parsing this sentence by
hand?

2.  Does this count as a change to the language, or merely cleaning up
LR(1) issues?[1]

-Robin

[1]: Please pretend that "change to the language" and "cleaning up LR(1)
issues" are two different things for purposes of this discussion; the
meta-disussion as to whether they are different or not can take place
elsewhere (and already has to some extent).

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