[lojban] Re: Minimal Lojban

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:

> 
> --- John E Clifford wrote:
> > Standard logic -- when it wants to dispense
> with
> > parentheses without going Polish -- has a
> system
> > of depth tags (usually something like ', '',
> ...
> > or ., :, and so on).  Can {bo} be repeated to
> > give closer and closer bindings? 
> 
> Not with the current grammar, no.
> 
> > Or subscripted?
> 
> Yes. The parse tree in this case won't reflect
> any difference 
> in binding, but this would not be the only
> place in the grammar
> where the parse structure does not reflect the
> logical structure
> anyway.

Also painfully true.  Loglan had a cmavo
corresponding to a standard logic abbreviation to
indicate that the following chunk was to be taken
as a unit wrt left grouping: essentially a left
parenthesis without a matching right.  The test
sentence would then be {p ija X q ijo r ije s}, a
more manageable chunk.  Is that flag -- the X
here -- still around (I don't even know what to
look up to search for it).  But in looking, I
notice that a string of {bo}s gets right grouped
throughout, soo the alternative to {boxire} and
then {bo}, namely {bo... bo...}, won't work
either.