[lojban] Re: Opinions, please: SA by structure

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

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:15:38PM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> >You could also (probably; we haven't hashed this out yet) do {mi
> >vecnu do lo cukta sa da sa lo cukta do}, effictively counting
> >back two terms, but I don't actually expect anyone to do this.
> >"da" was used as "any term" there.
> 
> I don't see how that would work.  It looks to me like the first
> {sa da} would strip out {lo cukta} and replace it with {da},
> leaving {mi vecnu do da}, then the next {sa lo cukta} would turn
> it into {mi vecnu do lo cukta}, and then a final {do} for {mi
> vecnu do lo cukta do}.

Err.  Serry, there was supposed to be a {si} after {sa da} for just
that reason.

-Robin

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