Subject: RE: [lojban] Chomskyan universals and Lojban

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:24:47 +0100

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.