[lojban] Re: experimental cmavo in lojgloss.

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

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 07:36, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> But in that case it won't be
>> of help for fixing something that is grammatically broken, like
>> SI/SA/SU are meant to do. For example {mi kjama le zarji lo'ai kjama
>> sa'ai klama le'ai} will parse as "{mi} followed by uninterpretable
>> gibberish", so it will never get to a higher level for interpretation.
>
> It will when you are talking to a human.

Right, but it would still be unparsable. The problem is that the text
before it is ungrammatical, and so has to be ignored by the parser to
get the whole thing to parse, which requires that the parser
understand which words the lo'ai is nulling out. It can't be treated
half-way and have things still parse.

Chris Capel
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