From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 10 13:32:53 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 May 2004 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BNHSB-0007zo-Ew for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:32:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:32:47 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "Mooooos" (Re: my new idea for onomato's) (rspeer) Message-ID: <20040510203247.GR5570@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040510000710.GA20485@mit.edu> <20040510202434.GZ8616@skunk.reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040510202434.GZ8616@skunk.reutershealth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7765 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 Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:24:34PM -0400, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote: > la_okus scripsit: > > > > And to parse such a phrase, you have to maintain an arbirtrarily > > > large stack. > > > > Again, I'm not sure what a this means (forgive me). I figured all > > the computer would have to do is search the text letter-by-letter > > that comes after sa'ei, until it finds a repeat. > > Right, but the repetition could be 5,739 letters away. Even if > computers can handle that (with annoying hacks), humans can't: if you > have fubarbazamkuuks...tatatututitifubarbazamkuuks...tatatututito, you > have to then jump back to the beginning and reanalyze it, now that you > see that this is not a reduplication. How is that different from zoi? > > This, I can answer. Onomatopoeia have the unique requirement of > > being flexible; they are supposed to mimic sounds. I just can't bare > > to teach my child that a cow goes "muuuus"... > > lo'e bakni cu bacru zoi gy. muuuuumuuuuu .gy Which should always be used for that sort of thing anyways. Last I checked, cows do not speak Lojban, hence either zoi or la'o should be used. -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