Subject: Re: [lojban] guhek brain damage

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 04:52:41 -0400

At 12:08 AM 07/08/2001 -0700, Nick Nicholas wrote:
>I've just found out that gek allows non-logical connectives, but guhek 
>doesn't:
>
>gek = [SE] GA [NAI] # | joik GI # | stag gik
>guhek = [SE] GUhA [NAI] #
>
>All right, what's your excuse?

It's been a long time, but I suspect that allowing forethought GI in guheks 
would lead to ambiguity, the most obvious case being with a bare selbri, so 
that joik gi would not tell you whether it was leading in to a sentence 
connection or a selbri internal connection.

The two constructions with "gi" were late additions that strained the 
language to its limit.

lojbab
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