From pycyn@aol.com Sat Dec 22 17:44:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 23 Dec 2001 01:44:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 30295 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2001 01:44:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Dec 2001 01:44:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d08.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.40) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2001 01:44:38 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id r.4c.3e26043 (3981) for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:44:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4c.3e26043.295690fe@aol.com> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:44:30 EST Subject: Re: [engelang] [OT] Re: [lojban] Binary Language To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_4c.3e26043.295690fe_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_4c.3e26043.295690fe_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/22/2001 2:48:57 PM Central Standard Time, araizen@newmail.net writes: > I once thought about implementing a "reverse polish" loglan which > would be more or less isomorphic to lojban, i.e. all terminators and > scope-marking would be implicit in the structure of the grammar > *without* using explicit words Can you really do this. Logic gets away with it by clear sentence beginnings, HP by hitting the invisible "enter" key; how does a language as complex as Lojban manage --part1_4c.3e26043.295690fe_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/22/2001 2:48:57 PM Central Standard Time, araizen@newmail.net writes:


I once thought about implementing a "reverse polish" loglan which
would be more or less isomorphic to lojban, i.e. all terminators and
scope-marking would be implicit in the structure of the grammar
*without* using explicit words


Can you really do this.  Logic gets away with it by clear sentence beginnings, HP by hitting the invisible "enter" key; how does a language as complex as Lojban manage --part1_4c.3e26043.295690fe_boundary--