From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Fri Aug 17 20:27:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 03:27:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 55372 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 03:27:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 03:27:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta02-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.42) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 03:27:58 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.23]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010818032756.KGSQ29790.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:27:56 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:24:47 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Xod: > 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? Not only does not all direct speech end in "unquote", but nor is every "quote" matched by an "unquote" (as, for example, a search of the web or of online text corpora should show). I went to my congressman, and he said, quote: "I'd sure like to help you son, but you're too young to vote". --And.