From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 30 13:41:13 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJeok-0005kE-4a for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:41:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:41:06 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Average length of sentences and words in Lojban versus natlangs Message-ID: <20040430204106.GU14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200404300746.20125.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404300746.20125.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7596 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, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:46:20AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Lojban has rules for unambiguous parsing and lexing. How much longer, > on average, does this make Lojban sentences and words than sentences > and words in languages that don't have such rules? I have no idea how one would answer that question with the tiny little corpus we currently have. Suggestions welcome. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi