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Re: [lojban] groupyness in definitions



That's a bug in the BNF/YACC grammar that is fixed in the PEG
grammar.

-Alan

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:44:30AM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>    It can, but xorxes point' was that "roxy.xipa" is a single numeric string,
>    all-X(1) (remember that "paxy." -> "1X" is considered a number, and can do
>    all things that numbers do (quantify sumti, etc.)). Since you want to make
>    this two different "words" you have to end the quantifier part with a boi,
>    "ro boi xy xi pa", the same as you have to do if you want to say, for
>    example, "xy boi zy darxi" if you mean "X hits Z", and not "xy zy darxi"
>    ("XZ hits")
>    (Of course, jboski/genrei chokes on "xy xi pa" for reasons unknown to me,
>    but there is nothing wrong with it grammatically
>    --gejyspa
> 
>    On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Luke Bergen <[1]lukeabergen@gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Sorry, for some reason I was thinking that xyxipa worked like "broda"
>      and could work in tanru and whatnot. Everywhere where selkik was
>      using {me} I intended it that way.
> 
>      And yeah, now that I think of it, I guess I would agree that {lo se
>      vasru no'u la'oi m&ms cu vrici lo ka skari} even though some of the
>      m&ms will certainly have the same color as others in the same bag.
> 
>      2011/7/23 Jorge Llamb�as <[2]jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>      > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Luke Bergen
>      <[3]lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>      >> I was thinking about how one would define "vrici" in lojban (I've
>      since
>      >> looked it up and xorxes has already done this). But at the time, I
>      came up
>      >> with something like {ro xyxipa cu frica ro lo drata xyxipa lo ka
>      xyxire}.
>      >
>      > You have three sumti there: "ro xyxipa", "ro lo drata", "xyxipa" and a
>      > fourth incomplete one "lo ka xyxire ... mo".
>      >
>      > (Officially "ro xyxipa" is only a number, not a sumti, so the whole
>      > thing is ungrammatical because of that first part too, but I agree
>      > that PA and BY should not mix, so I won't take points off for that.)
>      >
>      > You seem to be using "xyxipa" as a selbri, but it's a sumti.
>      >
>      >> Then I thought some more about it and started wondering if that
>      {drata} was
>      >> really doing what I wanted it to. If we're talking about {ro lo
>      broda} then
>      >> we're saying "all of those things that broda which are within the
>      scope of
>      >> our discourse". But now if I say "ro lo drata broda" that "other"ness
>      is
>      >> being applied to the "broda" and then we take "all of that".
>      >> Is there a way to say "all of the things in xyxipa taken as
>      individuals
>      >> are different from each of (all of the things in the set xyxipa minus
>      itself
>      >> as individuals) in property xyxire".
>      >
>      > ro da poi me xyxipa cu frica ro de poi me xyxipa gi'e drata da ku'o
>      xyxire
>      >
>      > I don't think "vrici" requires such total difference among the x1's
>      though.
>      >
>      > mu'o mi'e xorxes
>      >
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