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Re: Allnoun



TO> "The boy that beat the dog that chased the cat that caught the mouse
TO> that ate the cheese that the maid left on the table."

Sounds like fun.  Here is Lojban observative-only mode.  I think it uses
much less grammar than the proposed Allnoun structure, but then I analyzed this
in only about 30 seconds at 2 am.

fetsyselfu pruselcliva ke jubme cpana ke'e cirla citka smacu kavbu mlatu
jersi gerku raplydarxi nanla

(female-server past-left-behind) (table upon) cheese eater mouse catcher cat
chaser dog repeatedly-hitter boy

Except for the parens conveyed by the ke/ke'e particles, all grouping is
strictly pair-wise from the left, thereby picking up one word or labelled
group at a time.  (Hmm. I didn't really need that first pair of parentheses.)

I won't explicitly put in all the default parentheses, since they should
be obvious and VERY noisy on a screen.  The string could also be
inverted using the "of-type" particle, giving:

boy of-type repeatedly-hitter of-type dog of-type chaser of-type cat of-type
catcher of-type mouse of-type eater of-type cheese of-type table-upon of-type
past-left-behind of-type female-server

where all  of-type structures group from the right.

lojbab