[lojban] Re: "la" rule

["Matt Arnold" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 11/13/06, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> the numerous
> unofficial parser projects have been reinventing the wheel in a variety
> of different ways, to different ends, and haven't (to my knowledge) been
> incorporating advances in the diagnostics.
>
> But if people were regularly running their text through checkers that
> caught such errors, I indeed think that people would stop making the
> errors.  Human beings don't parse like machines, and thus accept things
> that a machine might not find legal.  That just means that we need
> machines to help teach us to follow some of the rules.
>
> lojbab


In my opinion, easy-to-use computer prosthetics embedded into a
Firefox extension would be a major milestone for the language. It
would be as if we had a native speaker to teach us. Admittedly, Lojban
is not a computer language, but it has unique advantages for computer
diagnostics, and therefore computers should be our teachers. We should
be able to use ubiquitous built-in Lojban parsing tools to prompt us
every time we make a mistake in Lojban.

-Eppcott


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