Re: [lojban] Re: [Llg-members] nu ningau so'u se jbovlaste / updating a few jbovlaste entries

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:41 PM, 'John E Clifford' via lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com> wrote:

As a minor practical suggestion, I note that starting from the logicl form and working back to the phonological realization is, in one repect easier than 'tother way 'round, since you have a certainty for a start.

Yes, going from the logical form (FOPL?) to _one_ phonological realization in Lojban is trivial. 

 

 Of course, you then have a variety of ways that things can go, since one form gives rise to a large number of different phonological strings.

That's the tricky part. For example, it is trivial to go from, say P(x,y) to "ko'a broda ko'e", but then giving rules to generate all the logically equivalent sentences "broda fa ko'a ko'e", "fe ko'e fa ko'a broda", "ko'a cu se se broda fe ko'e", and so on ad infinitum, is non-trivial. 

 

 But  each difference is achieved (ideally) in a unique way and a suitable grammar will require marks for exactly those unique steps and no others, for a significant net savings compared to the present systems (it seems to me, who am often annoyed by what seem to be irrelevant requirements put in because they ae useful somewhere sometime).

It's not obvious to me that this direction is easier, but nothing is stopping anyone who wants to try it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

 

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