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On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:34:19PM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> Jordan:
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:21:09PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > > And Rosta scripsit:
> > >
> > > > Fair enough. But all the parser needs to know is the selmaho, no?
> > >
> > > Well, in one sense. But the whole idea of *elidable* terminators is
> > > that they can be elided because one (a parser or a human being) can
> > > reconstruct the unique (sequence of) terminators that are missing
> > > If there is more than one cmavo in an elidable-terminator selma'o, this
> > > is not possible: does
> > >
> > > le broda [] cu brode
> > >
> > > mean
> > >
> > > le broda ku cu brode
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > le broda goi'a cu brode
> >
> > Saying this is "impossible" is a bit of a stretch
> >
> > More accurately, it would suck for the parser to need to inspect
> > which terminators were specified instead of elided and then examine
> > which token it was so it can decide if ko'a changed or whatever
> > other foo And wants to pack into the things
>
> But the current parser doesn't do things like anaphora, logical
> structure, and so forth, does it? It ignores semantics, and simply
> pronounces whether the string is syntactically well-formed or
> not.
What's your point?
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