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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Replying to @alicemazzy
if we just used lots more parenthesis like God and John McCarthy intended, this would all be trivial
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Replying to @MorlockP @alicemazzy
Come up with a new symbol. English has already fucked up parentheses (e.g. by putting the period inside them.)
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(and nesting (not allowed))
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dis for new language so nbd
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clifford
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"clifford (sbj) elephant-size and apple-color (mod) dog (obj) is"
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Replying to @alicemazzy @MorlockP
I'm starting to think that making it postfix instead of in fix would reduce the need for groupings, but likely at the cost of readability.
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