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Re: [lojban] Re: Questions about Lojban


2015-01-28 1:36 GMT+03:00 'John E Clifford' via lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com>:
Every utterance of Lojban (in particular, though the goal goes back to Loglan) can be shown grammatical in only one way, it has a unique parse. (And presumably a correct one, that is one that corresponds perfectly to that underlying proposition from which the sentence is derived by the selection of rules peculiar to this language. Whatever the fate of the monoparsing claim is at the moment, this second point – which is the interesting one for refuting the Hypothesis – is not demonstrated.)

Please, note that as I showed earlier what is definitely "different parses of the same sentence" in English still can be achieved in Lojban. I mean "I saw a plane flying over Zurich" example.
The precisely ambiguous version {mi pu viska lo vinji ca lo nu lo se xivei pa a re no'a cu vofli ga'u la tsurix} is a perfect Lojban.
It both means "I saw a plane while I was flying over Zurich" and "I saw a plane while it was flying over Zurich".

So your claim about "monoparsing" has to be clarified.
See reply above showing more of this example.

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