From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Tue Jun 27 15:19:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25629 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 22:19:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 22:19:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO latimer.mail.easynet.net) (195.40.1.40) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 22:19:02 -0000 Received: from rrbcurnow.freeuk.com (tnt-2-143.easynet.co.uk [195.40.196.143]) by latimer.mail.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572F853849 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:18:55 +0100 (BST) Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 1373O1-000061-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:59:17 +0100 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:59:17 +0100 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Names of characters Message-ID: <20000627225917.C212@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@egroups.com References: <0006261922130D.01794@neofelis> <20000627001731.B12814@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000627001731.B12814@twcny.rr.com>; from rob@twcny.rr.com on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:17:31AM -0400 From: Richard Curnow On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:17:31AM -0400, rob@twcny.rr.com wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:23:16AM +0200, Elrond wrote: > > > > > " - lubu > > won't "lubu" be parsed as "lu bu" (and probably make the following > > ungrammatical) ? > > The jbofi'e goes crazy with the even bridi "zo lubu cu valsi". > > I thought the reference grammar said that 'bu' overrides just about everything. > If not, that'd totally ruin my concept of 'zoibu'. > See the files grammar.300 and bnf.300 (sorry, I don't know the URL for these on the LLG website, I downloaded them so long ago.) At the top of grammar.300, the order of binding the 'special' constructions is listed. The first step (2a) is to handle zoi, so zoi bu .... bu becomes a single sumti. The second step (2b) is to handle zo, so zo lu becomes a single sumti. The case of " bu" is handled later, as step (4c). Thanks for finding that "zo lubu cu valsi" makes jbofi'e crash - at last, a new bug to get my teeth into! co'o mi'e ritcyd. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/