[lojban] Re: technical bridi place question

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This probably doesn't matter, practically speaking, but in the sentence
>>
>>  da broda be de be'o di
>>
>> , is {di} in place 2 or 3 of broda? Jboski says 3, and my parser
>> agrees, but I wanted to make sure.
>
> That's what I would expect to. {da de broda be di} is harder
> to decide. Is {de} the x3 of broda, because the selbri
> {broda be di} is already reduced by one place, so that its
> x2 is the x3 of broda?

Well, both Lojgloss and jbofi'e assign de to x3, but not for the
reason you give (at least in the case of Lojgloss). My algorithm
starts filling places of "broda" with the linkargs first, starting at
the second place, so first di is assigned x2, then da x1, and then de
x3, because it's the next open place. Thus {da fe de broda be di}
assigns de to the x2 of broda, where under your interpretation it
would be the x3 of broda, being the x2 of {broda be di}. (Jbofi'e once
again agrees with Lojgloss.)

Chris Capel
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