Re: [lojban] any-word-SA-handling clarification

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:22 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

Is it way too late to just say"Oops!"and start all over again without a
grammatical way to erase the mistake?

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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 6:22:55 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] any-word-SA-handling clarification

I hadn't thought of that particular definition. It's definitely a
thought. We gotta do *something* with it, though, it's ridiculous.

-Robin

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:20:02PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> so, being the benevolent dictator for life of the bpfk that you
> are, can you just define it that way? From what I'm hearing, it
> sounds like it doesn't have a very firm definition as it is now.
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:14:01PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> > > With all this talk of {sa}, what about {ra}? It seems like it
> > > would have a similar set of issues.
> >
> > No, not at all. With {sa} you have to be able to emit arbitrary
> > bullshit and at the end it's still grammatical. At the *parser*
> > level. {ra} issues are purely semantic; how to parse it is not in
> > question.
> >
> > > ta'onai when I see {sa} I usually assume something like "cut all
> > > the words back to the last {.i}". Is coding something like that
> > > in PEG possible?
> >
> > Trivial. That would be a *fantastic* version of {sa} from a parsing
> > perspective. Sooooo much better than the current version.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
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