From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Jul 08 01:48:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 8 Jul 2001 08:48:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 24579 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2001 08:48:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Jul 2001 08:48:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2001 08:48:39 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (65.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.65]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f688mcp29340 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 04:48:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010708044809.00e6adf0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 04:52:41 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] guhek brain damage In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" 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 -- 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