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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by hprotagonist on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:02AM (#21959745)
...However, for real Japanese from the wild there would need to be many many rules, and any slight deviations from the rules would not result in a full parse.

Much like the rest of biological systems, natural language "laws" and formalisms are more or less guaranteed to have a "except when..." clause after them.

I tried to think of a recursive "except when" to the above, but couldn't come up with anything appropriately witty.

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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by gizmo686 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:11AM (#21959774)
... Except when the formalism is so powerful as to be consistent with anything.
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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by hprotagonist on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:11PM (#21962294)
I have a small town in italy with a barber problem i’d like to tell you all about...
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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by james_s_tayler on Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:10AM (#21961291)
... except when it's not.
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