RE: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:

> Xod:
> > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:
> > >
> > > > * Natlang syntax doesn't have terminators (AFAIK)
> [...]
> > "unquote" is a terminator. Are you sure there are no more?
>
> It remains to be demonstrated that "unquote" is a terminator
> syntactically. There are certainly expressions for marking
> ends of things, e.g. "The End".



How could it not be a syntactic terminator? Doesn't every quote require an
unquote?




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but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and
anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel,"
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