Received: from localhost ([::1]:42759 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TyV3W-00046W-ID; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:13:58 -0800 Received: from earth.ccil.org ([192.190.237.11]:34411) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TyV3Q-00046P-4L for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:13:56 -0800 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TyV3O-0006Gq-19 for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:13:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:13:50 -0500 From: John Cowan To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Message-ID: <20130124221349.GB20636@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20130124175134.GA14317@mercury.ccil.org> <51017FF7.504@plasmatix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51017FF7.504@plasmatix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_bar: / Subject: Re: [jbovlaste] berbere, berberi X-BeenThere: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: jbovlaste@lojban.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: jbovlaste-bounces@lojban.org selpa'i scripsit: > The PEG assigns rafsi to all fu'ivla, but even if you don't like the > PEG morphology, the CLL itself proposes fu'ivla rafsi for fu'ivla of > the form CCV'VCV: The reason that was just a proposal is that we could never prove that decompositions were unambiguous. Note that a PEG grammar, unlike a YACC grammar, does not prove this, because PEG grammars silently override ambiguities using the rule "first = best". That isn't good enough for Lojban morphology, so I consider the CLL proposal a dead letter. > Allowing two fu'ivla to differ only in their final vowel would remove > the possibility of having fu'ivla rafsi, which is quite a big cost. Fu'ivla lujvo have their own problems, because you have to make sure that you can enunciate them as single words with no pauses or additional stresses. "Zei" compounds don't have those problems. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. --Thomas Henry Huxley _______________________________________________ jbovlaste mailing list jbovlaste@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/jbovlaste