From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sat Feb 03 14:38:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 3 Feb 2001 22:38:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 68733 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2001 22:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Feb 2001 22:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Feb 2001 22:38:11 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA10830; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:43:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:43:55 -0500 To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] su'u Message-ID: <20010203174354.F24920@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Jorge Llambias , lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:03:30AM +0000 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:03:30AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > > > But no matter how many clear cases there are, as long as > > > there is one ambiguous case we have ambiguity. > > > > > > do catlu be le nu mi klama > > > > > > could parse as: do (catlu be le nu mi) klama > > > or as: do catlu be le nu (mi klama) > > > >If that were true, then do catlu be le nu mi would parse, but it > >doesn't, at least not in jbofi'e. > > > >-Robin > > Of course it doesn't parse, and it shouldn't, that's what I was > saying. If xod's use of {le nu } were accepted, it would > create ambiguity, that's why it is not acceptable, and it does > not parse. Please don't remove attributions. So you're saying that 'do catlu be le nu mi klama' is _not_ ambiguous as the grammar stands, and that 'le nu {sumti}' is illegal to make sure that it's not ambiguous? If so, you're agreeing with me, as _I_ was the one who pointed out the 'le nu {sumti}' was bad. 8) -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP