[lojban] Re: Loglish: A Modest Proposal

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

-- klaus schmirler <KSchmir@online.de> wrote:

> Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 
> > On 8/15/05, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> >>As an example of the algorithms I described
> in my prior mail, suppose
> >>someone says
> >>
> >>"Ben murder chicken pliers quu weapon"
> >>
> >>This means that "Ben murders chickens using
> pliers as a weapon"
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't you need:
> > 
> >   la Ben cu murder lo chicken lo pliers quu
> weapon
> > 
> > ? Otherwise, it might be taken to mean "Ben
> is a murderous chicken
> > using pliers as a weapon" or "Ben is a
> murderously chickeny 
> > pliers-as-a-weapon" or "Lo! there's Ben
> type-of murderously chickeny 
> > pliers-as-aweapon!" or something else. (I'm
> not sure if names
> > can be recognized as sumti in Loglish even
> without {la}, or whether
> > "pliers quu weapon" can be taken as a sumti
> even without a gadri.  
> > You might also need to distinguish "chicken
> quu animal" from
> > "chicken quu coward".)
> 
> I think the straightforward reading is Ben
> murdering chicken pliers.

Which pliers are some sort of weapon for something.


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