Re: [lojban] go'i as "yes"

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A:  ti'e la .bob. zvati
> B:  go'i
> Would you read that as {me too} or {yes, you heard right.  He is here}.

The latter, although it's more like:

A: I hear Bob is here.
B: He is here.

> What I'm getting at is, {go'i} clearly does not simply repeat all the words
> of the last bridi or else {xu do broda .i go'i} would expand to {xu do broda
> .i xu do broda}.  So is it just discursives that get dropped?

It's not so much that they get dropped, but rather that they were
never picked up. All that "go'i" picks up is a proposition, What B
does with it is up to B. Presumably, in this case B is asserting it.

> I think I
> remember hearing xorxes at one point say something like "go'i repeats the
> bridi and any left off places are defaulted to those of the previous bridi".

Any left off places are "zo'e", as always. From the context, they will
often be those of the previous bridi, as they are the most obvious.

>  But then, are discursives "left off but NOT defaulted to those of the
> previous bridi"?

Right, discursives are not a part of the proposition. They sometimes
indicate what the speaker is doing with the proposition.

> If I were writing a program to parse lojban, how should my parser deal with
> a piece of discourse that contained {go'i} if it wanted to expand
> everything?
> i.e. given the following bridi
> .i ti'e .u'i la .bob. noi lazni cu zvati to pe'i cinri toi ma
> How does {go'i} differ syntactically and semantically from {zo'e zvati zo'e}

Neither seems like a very helpful answer to a "ma" question.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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