there's this thing in constructing dependency trees of sentences I've been calling the pajama problem
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from groucho marx's "I shot an elephant in my pajamas this morning, how he got in my pajamas I don't know"
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I have occasional bouts of designing an emoji-based language meant to be trivially parsable and this particular sentence made me go "haha cute...... oh fuck"
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but I think it might be solved if you mandate projectivity? plus a binding direction. this is specifically for things like freestanding phrases with implied referents
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so like "I shot an elephant in my pajamas" is unambiguously the nonsense meaning and for the normal meaning you'd have to write "I in my pajamas shot an elephant"
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it sounds weird in english but it's not like, wrong
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one of the things I'm adamant on for emoji language is parens for logical grouping so you can easily distinguish like
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"I shot a robber in my house" could encode which of the two parties, and one or both, was in the house
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"I [sbj] house in robber [obj] shoot [past]" = me in house robber outside, vs "I [sbj] robber [obj] house in shoot [past]" or "(I [subj] robber [obj]) house in shoot [past]"
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incidentally the original intent of parens was to denote whole clauses used as modifiers and to group modifiers themselves
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I was gonna commasep but then someone pointed out "oh neat how would you do 'or'?" so god help me I might use & and |
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Possibly check out latinate declensions for inspiration?
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