From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 27 05:03:32 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFXQR-0001V5-4p for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:31 -0800 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DFXQI-0001Up-2r for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:30 -0800 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so1695681rnf for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=LpdYDU1QT7b0JpJv/3uQiS3DDJo8W64k/QC+wtuTJyTIJXxBfDv0Lr3CDhuxl6+229c8E+01VDCtCQb2fF9KCkhPHXgykPQ+5jpNHUZ7YXV/sC8rNCUzICMBhuS6YuEM5LiwZmCthehId1vSO9D0iz1/hUljJOQSFwsRoJQsH9Y= Received: by 10.38.163.7 with SMTP id l7mr3943128rne; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.208.61 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:03:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <537d06d005032705032db5a3f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:03:21 +0200 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: interrelated vocab word length Re: Re: Hello list [introduction] In-Reply-To: <20050327001832.GQ10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20050327001832.GQ10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 1340 X-Approved-By: philip.newton@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > A Lojban speech stream, with emphasis and a few required pauses, can > only be decoded in to words in one way. No natural language, that I > am aware of, has this feature. No homonyms, nor groups of words > that can be interpreted different ways. A famous English example > being "ice cream" versus "I scream". Another famous example is "Time flies like a banana", where any of the first three words could be the main verb of the sentence. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton