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

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

That's what the rest of us were talking about; I'm not certain what
PC (aka John Clifford) meant, although I *suspect* that he was going
for my other suggestion, which is "{sa} means "I did something
wrong; figure it out", with no attempt to fix the fact that the
result will be ungrammatical.

-Robin

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:31:32PM +1100, Ross Ogilvie wrote:
> @John, I don't know what you mean.
> 
> Is the suggestion being entertained
> si = delete word
> sa = delete sentence
> su = delete everything
> ?
> 
> mu'o mi'e ros
> 
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > 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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