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Re: [lojban] Why left-grouping of tanru?



The example I've always heard in the context of linguistics for weird grouping is "January water cooler cover replacement screw shipment".

My guess for why left-grouping is that it doesn't end up mattering much, so pick something. It also might be easier to special case the right grouping than to special case left grouping (when speaking and reading).


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Was wondering why "left-grouping rule" was chosen as the default for tanru? 

I ran though random examples of using two adjectives in my head and they are almost always right-grouping. "big red truck", "bright yellow star", "little lost ant", there are exceptions, like "dark roast coffee", but even then the right-grouping would be okay. But in the other examples left-grouping would be just flat wrong. 

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