[lojban] Re: technical bridi place question

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

    Although you can't always trust jbofi'e.  After all, in "da broda
de fe di  it assigns de to the X3 place, but the refgram (chapter 9,
3.9) specifically says that both "de" and "di" should be the f2
places.  I'm not sure what the rule is with "be"-implicitly-tagged
places would/should be, though.

                 --gejyspa (and yeah, I did comment on jbogloss 2.0.0,
saying that on Windows XP it was giving me a windows error message
when I tried to run it...)


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