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Brett Williams, On 17/08/2012 05:24:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Mike S.<maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:In Brett's system, it might be nice to have a shortcut though. Perhaps allowing batabatabababababababati to be replaced with bi or something when there is no ambiguity, which should never arise, because it seems like everything is explicitly terminated.The shortcut I'm using is on the next level of the grammar. After that simple, always parenthesized, always terminated grammar, the next level is very free: Each structure determines the grammar of what's inside it, as in lisp. So you can replace "batabatabababababababati babo batabatabababababababatu" with "di batabatabababababababato babo du", because that's the grammar of di/du (and there's a variety of short words that do that so you can mix and match different terminators to make it less confusing). But that's just one example of how a Babebabo macro grammar can spare you the trouble of putting things together by hand, you could also have a macro let's say um "batabat" that takes "batabati A-o B-o C-o D-o batabatu" and then it's as if you had said "A-i B-i C-i D-o C-u B-u A-u". So in order to say "babi bati tabi tato tabu batu babu" you could just say "di batabato babo bato tabo tato du", see, way fewer terminators! :P Or um if "tadabi A-o B-o C-o D-o tadabu" means "A-i B-o A-u A-i C-o A-u A-i D-o A-u" then you can say "bebabebi babebabo bebabebu bebabebi tatetato bebabebu bebabebi babo bebabebu" just by saying "di tadabo bebabebo babebabo tatetato babo du"! That doesn't make any sense at all, sorry, maybe I'll be able to write explanations that make sense once I have more vocabulary. ;)
Babebabo would be an absolute boon for scat singing. --And.