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RE: [jboske] grammar & pseudogrammar



xorxes:
> It is not at all obvious how an afterthought connective interacts
> with the left-to-right scope rule, because it necessarily has scope 
> over something to its left. Where the start of the first connectand
> is has to be specified one way or another, and with the current parser 
> both connectands are bridi-tails, which come with selbri tags and NAs 

Quite. This is the crucial ingredient of the prior discussion that
I couldn't remember.

I'd actually be quite happy for this issue to not be resolved. 
Afterthought creates problems, and it seems quite fitting that
those problems should be resolvable only through glorking. To
avoid glorking, use forethought.

--And.