From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 29 16:26:55 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C1Z4Z-00045g-Bl for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:26:55 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:26:55 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: la'i. - Unique semantics of letter combinations? Message-ID: <20040829232655.GC26123@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040829100242.GA3908@hvf-bs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040829100242.GA3908@hvf-bs.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 775 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:02:42PM +0200, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke wrote: > I read the claim, that > > A stream of Lojban sounds can be uniquely broken up into its > > component words according to specific rules. > [ Reference Grammar, Chapter 4 ] > > So how abount the stream > > .imiskicula'ilojban. > > Where do I know from whether I describe the thing named "'ilojban" > or the set of named "lojban"? Because ' can only go between two vowels, for one thing. To decompose a sound stream also requires stress indication and all mandatory pauses filled in, which you have not done. In particular, without emphasis indicated that could break down as: .i misku cu la'i lojban I don't think it can break any more badly than that, though. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"