Re: sumti grammar oddity
"And Rosta" <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:59:17 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske |
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| Organization | Livagian Consulate |
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----- Original Message ----- From: Bob LeChevalier <[email protected]> > (The real answer is that we tried to make the grammar as unrestricted as > possible, while still being able to resolve the structure unambigously per > YACC. > > There is all kinds of nonsense possible in number strings too, so we should > expect some amount of nonsense to be grammatical in Lojban sumti structures. > > At one time I was one of those fighting to find interpretations for as many > possible strings, but Cowan convinced me that this was a waste of time.) One of these days we should write a grammar of that part of Lojban that is meaningful -- a grammar that people can/should actually learn. --And.