[lojban] Re: Do jbopre use terminators? (was: Is Lojban a CFG?)

["Chris Capel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 7/13/06, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If English *did* have Lojban-style phrase terminators, how often would
> > they be required? Less than Lojban, because English has more parts of
> > speech, and less nesting?
>
> It is a myth that English has more parts of speech than Lojban's more
> than a hundred.

Well, what I meant was that English tends rely more on differences in
parts of speech to communicate word grouping, whereas lojban depends,
more or less completely, on elidable terminators, and a few grouping
cmavo ({be}, {ke}, etc.).

Chris Capel
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