From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Mon Jun 05 15:22:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25563 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 22:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jun 2000 22:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 22:21:07 -0000 Received: from [212.126.153.16] (helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com ident=root) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12z5F3-0002fE-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:21:06 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 12z3mu-00007E-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:47:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:47:56 +0100 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar Message-ID: <20000605214756.A431@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@egroups.com References: <200006041853.OAA13654@locke.ccil.org> <00e501bfce8b$5bed0820$2f75bad0@cjnelson> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <00e501bfce8b$5bed0820$2f75bad0@cjnelson>; from cjnelson@CYBCON.COM on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:14:10PM -0700 From: Richard Curnow On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:14:10PM -0700, Clark & Janiece Nelson wrote: > > Richard Curnow scripsit: > > > > > Having had another day to think about this, I think John's suggested > > > modification to grammar.300 provides more generality than is > actually > > > required to fix the problem. > > > > On the other hand, John's modification would make true the statement > from The Complete Lojban Language, chapter 10, section 27: "It is > grammatical for a termset to be placed after a tense or modal tag," thus > removing a contradiction from the Book. Yes indeed - I hadn't noticed that statement in the book in the context of this issue before. Also, in the light of John's email yesterday showing how my minimal scheme would introduce two distinct uses for nu'i, it's pretty clear that John's method is the right one to adopt. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/