[lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Jordan DeLong scripsit:

> Anyway, I dunno why the text rule allows a nai at the start, 

It's probably overkill.  What we thought was useful was to have "nai"
by itself, for dialogues like this:

A:  .ui.
B:  nai

> Other than the problem with making too many sentences legal, I would
> complain that it complicates the parse tree of things like {mi
> na.enai do klama}.  The first "na" is handled at the same level as
> the .e and as part of the structure there.  But the second "nai"
> (if in UI) is handled at a lower level of the parser (where it
> allows UIs after any word).

The official parser trawls forward (backtracking on failure) and slurps
up things like "na.enai".

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