Re: [lojban] Higher-precedence Grouping with {bo} Is Impossible for TAG Sentence Connectives

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

On 12 May 2013 12:56, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:

More broadly, really complex constructs are more easily expressed using gi'ebo/gi'eke for right and left grouping in afterthought, and ga/gi for forethought.  Since these constructs connect multiple "bridi-tails" (selbri plus trailing sumti) within one .i sentence, for maximal flexibility, you have to but all the sumti including x1 after the selbri.  These are also described in that same chapter of CLL.

Furthermore, which I didn't realize earlier, the gi'eke construct is in my opinion unintuitive because it breaks the ordinary rules of ke..ke'e brackets:

{.i broda gi'eke brode ke'e brode gi'e brodu} doesn't parse, even though {ke brode ke'e brode} does outside of a gihek. This makes it impossible to achieve in a gihek the tanru parse {(broda brode) (brodi (brodo brodu))} which would be done with a combination of ke..ke'e and bo as such: {.i ke broda brode ke'e bo brodo bo brodu}

My suggestion would be to remoke gi'eke brackets altogether because they cause unexpected behaviour and limit the possibilities of our speech more than anything. They also have presumably little to no usage.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

 

lojbab
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