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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:37 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > Jorge Llambías, On 28/08/2012 02:54: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:37 AM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > >> It'd be good to expand the use of these abbreviations, because > >> they're conciser. E.g. if variable "oi" means "bound by complement > >> predication", "I believe there's fire" could be "jnva'akoi sa sma > >> fgra". > > > > Is "complement predication" meant to be always the following sentence? > > So something like Lojban's "la'e di'e"? I'd rather it meant "the > > following" and not the overprecise "the following (single) > > predication". > > I meant that the predication would be a dependent of oi, so occurring in > the same sentence. "Oi" could mean "the following sentence", but in the > sense of "following complete phrase" not "freestanding macrosyntagm (i.e. > syntagm that is not part of a larger syntagm). So change the grammar rule for formula from: formula:= simple-formula | complement formula to: formula:= simple-formula (koi formula)? | complement formula (this only works because "oi" is not a valid variable in simple-formula) mu'o mi'e xorxes