[lojban] Re: Utterance-level parsing notes

[symuyn <rbysamppi@gmail.com>]

On Oct 20, 5:52 am, Jorge Llambías <jjllamb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > sa is really that special?
>
> "sa" is the nastiest beast of the grammar, and we are not even sure
> what we want it to do exactly (none of the various alternatives that
> have been proposed is very satisfactory). So yes, I would say it is
> that special.
>
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:42 PM, symuyn <rbysam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I wrote some notes today while waiting for someone.
>
> >>https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1I6SgPk_X0tf2DvGR_D3klKi0O2K...
>
> >> I'm going to keep editing this whenever I feel like working on the
> >> hypothetical Lojban text editor. Do you have any corrections or
> >> comments?
>
> Yo have some typos there, mainly you have "tu" instead of "to" throughout.
> Also it's lo'u...le'u, not lo'u...li'u.
>
> No substantial comment for the moment, except I don't like the use of
> "utterance" for "the thing that goes between .i's". I find that
> confusing. I would prefer "sentence", even if there are incomplete or
> fragmentary sentences allowed as special cases. To me an utterance is
> either what someone utters (lo se bacru), which could consist of
> several sentences, or some act of uttering (lo nu bacru), but it's not
> really directly related to "thing between .i's".
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

Thanks for catching those typos. They've all been fixed. I also
finished the preliminary grammar for the initial parsing of documents,
but now the hard part--figuring out what to do when a significant word
is edited in/out--begins. Just {i ja} took a while to get, and I'm not
sure if it's always right. I'll eke out the plan for every significant
word's insertion and deletion over the next few months.

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