[lojban] Re: "la" rule

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:33:04AM -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
> Will someone please remind me what horrible things happen if we
> simply drop the restriction on cmene and make no other changes
> (that is, live as we do now -- with no reported problems).  We
> might take a vocative as a sumti or, less likely, a sumti as a
> vocative.  

We lose audio-visual isomorphism; la .stivn.laitl. would sound like
"la stivn lai tl".

> Clearly, humans sort these out, shouldn't the parser do
> so as well? 

...

Short answer: "No; machine recognition of ambiguous languages is
AI-hard."

-Robin

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