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Jordan DeLong scripsit: > I don't know why the seperate prenex infront of the ".ije" was > removed from the grammar. It used to be there, and there's even > examples in CLL which use it (chap 16). In order for the 'external > bridi negation' rules to work properly it must exist also. Ambiguity. If a prenex is allowed before each individual sentence, and also before the group of ijek-connected sentences, we can't tell when we see a prenex after .i or ni'o or start-of-text which kind it is and what its scope is. > I don't know if fixing this is something the BF can do. But it's > a contradiction in CLL, so it should be at least considered. I agree that it is a contradiction and should be fixed, but at the moment I don't see quite how. -- And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic tenebrous ultimate gods -- the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep. (Lovecraft) John Cowan|jcowan@hidden.email|ccil.org/~cowan