From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Apr 28 18:28:40 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 29 Apr 2003 01:28:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 96565 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 01:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Apr 2003 01:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2003 01:28:40 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19AJvE-0006im-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:28:40 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19AJvA-0006iT-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:28:36 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net ([68.1.17.244]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19AJv2-0006iB-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:28:28 -0700 Received: from lojban.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030429012758.OMVL8337.lakemtao01.cox.net@lojban.lojban.org> for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:27:58 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030428212623.0390d4d0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:27:51 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: nai in UI (was: BPFK phpbb) In-Reply-To: <20030428162158.A32091-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> References: <20030428194858.18292.qmail@web20506.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 4997 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Robert LeChevalier Reply-To: lojbab@lojban.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 04:36 PM 4/28/03 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: >On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > la camgusmis cusku di'e > > > > > My new example of how insane this is is > > > > > > nai nai nai mi nai nelci nai nai nai > > > > > > which would be legal if this change was made. > > > > nai nai nai na'e bo mi na'e na'e na'e nelci > > > > is currently grammatical (and equally bad style). > >As is "jai jai jai na'e jai je'a klesi jai cupra", which was offered by a >random sentence generator, and defended by Jay as being grammatical, and >yet now we're supposed to get our panties twisted at the fear of "nai nai >nai". That one bit of nonsense passes the parser is no argument to make more nonsense pass the parser. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org