Re: Con-prescriptivism

Orjan Johansen scripsit:

> I thought the Lojban parser could only parse phrases where none of the
> redundant grammar particles had been left out?  Rather similar to the
> difference between XML and SGML, if I understand correctly.
You do understand correctly about XML and SGML, but not about Lojban:
the parser recovers nicely from omitted closing particles.  Occasionally
it can get radically confused and drop real content; this seems to depend
on the exact details of the Yacc parser skeleton, which Lojban strains
pretty hard.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.