From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Jan 24 07:06:30 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 24 Jan 2003 15:06:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 6298 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 15:06:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Jan 2003 15:06:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 15:06:29 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com ([10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA23428 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:19:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200301241519.KAA23428@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:06:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: loi preti be fi lo nincli zo'u tu'e To: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban List) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:06:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030124074320.03606200@pop.east.cox.net> from "Robert LeChevalier" at Jan 24, 2003 07:47:00 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Robert LeChevalier scripsit: > The extra left bracket (with implied right bracket) is required > for any complex mex expression in Lojban for LALR parsing reasons. Only partly. There is also a genuine ambiguity: numbers and lerfu strings have the same status in Mex, but "re broda" is a quantified sumti, whereas "ny. broda" is a full bridi. To speak of "n things" one must say vei ny. broda. -- There is / One art John Cowan No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein