From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Apr 11 11:39:53 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 11 Apr 2003 18:39:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 1307 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 18:39:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Apr 2003 18:39:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO skunk.reutershealth.com) (65.200.144.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2003 18:39:52 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by skunk.reutershealth.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E46546E34; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:42:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:42:35 -0400 To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] odd parse Message-ID: <20030411184235.GJ23679@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <200304111424.31449.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304111424.31449.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > I made a variant of a previous tonguetwister, {la bab noi babzba ba zbasu lo > jbazbabu lo babjba}, and ran it through jbofi'e. I expected it to throw it > out because of the missing terminator, but it apparently parsed it as {la > bab., noi babzba ba, zbasu lo jbazbabu lo babjba}. Is that correct? Yes. This is a fine example of why tenses don't successfully substitute for "cu". Had you said "cu ba zbasu" you would have gotten the correct parsing, because TENSE+elidable ku can appear almost anywhere, whereas "cu" can only appear just before the (extended) predicate. -- In politics, obedience and support John Cowan are the same thing. --Hannah Arendt http://www.ccil.org/~cowan