Subject: Re: [lojban] Logical translation request

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:22:27 -0500

At 09:11 PM 12/24/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>What ambiguity? {ze'u} is the interval of what follows
>{reroi indicates that what follows occurs twice. {ze'u reroi}
>never means "in two long intervals", it always is "twice in a long
>interval".

And reroi ze'u?
reroi ze'u ciroi?
reroi ze'u ciroi ze'i?

Sounds like you want default right-grouping, which IIRC was hard to manage 
in YACC.

> >Strict ordering of tense components allows complex tenses with ellipsis of
> >unspecified components and you know what has been left out at the time it
> >is skipped.
>
>Can you give a concrete example? Allowing ZEhAs as freely as
>ZAhOs and TAhEs does not seem to cause any problem.

I don't think ZAhOs and TAhEs are all that free. They are interval 
properties and either stand on their own or come after a ZEhA.

Given totally free order, you can create a jumble such as "reroi za'o ciroi 
ba'o ta'e ze'u ze'a ta'e pu'o ze'i paroi"

There may be a structure implied in that, but I wouldn't try to guess it.

lojbab
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