From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Aug 16 16:01:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 16 Aug 2001 23:01:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 56361 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2001 23:01:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Aug 2001 23:01:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 16 Aug 2001 23:01:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7GN1E103450 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:01:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Xod: > > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote: > > > > > > > * Natlang syntax doesn't have terminators (AFAIK) > [...] > > "unquote" is a terminator. Are you sure there are no more? > > It remains to be demonstrated that "unquote" is a terminator > syntactically. There are certainly expressions for marking > ends of things, e.g. "The End". How could it not be a syntactic terminator? Doesn't every quote require an unquote? ----- "I have never been active in politics or in any act against occupation, but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel," one of the witnesses said.