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Re: [lojban] Re: New PA-proposal
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that people are attempting to create a grammar for PA that produces
> all and ONLY those number strings that make sense. This is worthwhile, I
> think, but also unnecessary. We don't worry about which letters produce
> grammatical sentences, only which words.
Not the best analogy. PAs are words, and in any case letters have very
strict restrictions on how they can be combined to form words. In
fact, in Lojban there are two and only two letters that may be said to
belong to the same "letter-selma'o", i.e. such that they can always
occupy the same position in a phonologically valid word. All other
letters have their own individual grammars. (Exercise for the reader:
which letters are those?)
> Also, given that Lojban's grammar
> treats all gismu equally and all members of a selma'o equally, there is
> strong precedent for not creating special grammar for PA.
The grammar of PA would amount to splitting PA into several selma'o, of course.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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