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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:07:13 -0300
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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: looking for new name
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:51 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If the name is meant to have two parts, probably "zi'eful.favysejmiv"
> with an inbetween dot is the safest option in the parser-oriented,
> formal areas of Lojbanistan. But people (including myself) often opts
> to omit dots for aesthetic or pragmatic reasons (e.g. "the
> letter-space is enough for us humans to see the division of words").

Actually, it's the other way around. The parser only needs a space to
know that in that context it represents an obligatory pause. The dot
is optional, and there only for the benefit of the humans, as a
remainder that they must include a pause there.

mu'o mi'e xorxes