[lojban] Re: ki restriction?

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 1/5/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> The RefGram says:
>
>  Note: Modals made with ``fi'o''-plus-selbri cannot be made sticky.
>  This is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, restriction.
>
> in Chapter 9, Section 14.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> All three parsers accept "fi'o ki broda da brode".

That's different, {ki} there is a tag on broda, not on brode.

> 2 out of 3
> accept "fi'o broda ki da brode", so it doesn't seem to be a
> grammatical restriction.

That would be {fi'o broda [ku] ki da brode}. Here the term {ki da}
is a separate term from the term {fi'o broda ku}.

> I don't get it.

This is a proposal for how the grammar of tags could be cleaned up:

<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Internal+grammar+of+tags>

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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