Re: [lojban] The efficacy of Lojban's grammar.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:14:12PM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> 
> At any rate, I will readily concede that somebody could learn the
> formal grammar and then apply it by sheer brute-force brainpower.
> I guess you can test that by doing a quick pencil and paper parse
> and seeing if it matches the formal grammar. 

Way ahead of you; see other post.  :)

> But anyway, in the general case, bear in mind that the formal
> grammar isn't taught; it's not covered in CLL, apart from the
> nondidactic Ch 21. And nobody could work out the formal grammar
> inductively from usage. 

Probably true in both cases, but a *LOT* of Lojban uses use jbofihe
as a basic learning tool; I spent most of my years when I was unsure
of my grasp of the language passing everything through either
"jbofihe -x" or, if I was particularily unsure, "jbofihe -t", which
generates a full parse tree.  I'm far from unique in this respect.

-Robin

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