From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Tue Dec 03 15:28:15 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JMSZ-0001rQ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:28:11 -0800 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id CA8D33C5E5; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:27:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ".i la lojban(.) mo" Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:27:19 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20021203122013.0785126c.rizen@surreality.us> <3DED2D79.2090207@bilkent.edu.tr> In-Reply-To: <3DED2D79.2090207@bilkent.edu.tr> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02120318271900.01986@neofelis> X-archive-position: 2985 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tuesday 03 December 2002 17:17, Robin Turner wrote: > Only if you're Jorge, perhaps ;-). Spaces in Lojban are only there for > typographic reasons - they don't assume anything in terms of diction. > IMHO, it's more permissible to omit spaces than to omit full stops. One can omit the space between a brivla and preceding cmavo, but if one omits all spaces, some phrases are ambiguous, such as {letamjycausmani} ("the colobus" or "the thumbless monkey") and {lenupretrocange} ("to be a family farm", "the promising control-farm", "to be a person-controlling farm"). Of course with stresses indicated, these can be distinguished. phma