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Re: [lojban] [oz] Logical connectives



la'o me. Felipe Gonçalves Assis .me cusku di'e
I was puzzled by the use of logic connectives in several passages. E.g.

(1) {zàsti fa no sai drùsro je no lolnitkù'a}
(2) {no trìcu je no zdàni cu zvàti}

Ah right, these must have slipped through during my search and replace marathon. They should use {.e} instead of {je}. If you find more such examples, please let me know.

I see there is some consistency in their correlation with quantifiers,
but still I don't get it. What is the logic behind them?

Logically, {je} is the same as {.e}, but {je} can't connect sumti under official rules. At some point, the text used GIJA, or the connective unification grammar, but I reverted to the standard grammar. That's why you might still find some {je} that connect sumti; they are leftovers.

They are rejected by both camxes and jboski, but accepted by the parser
you indicated. Nevertheless, the parser also understands {ko'a je ko'e
broda} just like {ko'a .e ko'e broda}. Is it related to expansion order?

The parser is overly lenient by treating all connectives as interchangeable. Not only can you use {je} to connect sumti (as was the idea of the (not so) Mad Proposals), but you can also use {.e} to connect tanru units. None of this (should) happen in my Oz translation.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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