From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Dec 07 00:17:30 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18Ka9O-0003lC-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:17:26 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:17:26 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: cmegadri valfendi preti Message-ID: <20021207081726.GN28980@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <003201c29d2c$90a68830$abc70950@tanj> <5.2.0.9.0.20021206223513.03a4fec0@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021206223513.03a4fec0@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3207 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:45:28PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 12:49 AM 12/7/02 +0000, And Rosta wrote: > >I'm not sure that you understood the point I was making. I was > >claiming that the morphological rules are ALREADY too complex to be > >used in real time. > > I think you are wrong, provided that we aren't inventing pathological > borderline cases (like something that sounds like a full Lojban > sentence ending with a consonant. > > Names are seldom so long that they will not be understood to be names > without any special parsing. Once again, I would like to remind people that humans need to breath, and pausing ends a word. Names are not only seldom that long, they are in fact strictly length restricted by lung capacity. > (though Nick at full bore exceeds my capabilities, it is usually > because he is using words I don't recall rather than that I can't > break his speech into words), I, also, have never had much problem breaking up Nick's speech into words, even the year that all I could say was je'e. 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u jmaji le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi