Re: [lojban] guhek brain damage

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:08 AM 07/08/2001 -0700, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> I've just found out that gek allows non-logical connectives, but guhek 
> doesn't:
>
> gek   = [SE] GA [NAI] # | joik GI # | stag gik
> guhek = [SE] GUhA [NAI] #
>
> All right, what's your excuse?

It's been a long time, but I suspect that allowing forethought GI in guheks 
would lead to ambiguity, the most obvious case being with a bare selbri, so 
that joik gi would not tell you whether it was leading in to a sentence 
connection or a selbri internal connection.

The two constructions with "gi" were late additions that strained the 
language to its limit.

lojbab
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