From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Tue Feb 11 22:36:40 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 92 22:36 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA20213; Tue, 11 Feb 92 18:05:24 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA21435; Tue, 11 Feb 92 15:48:35 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA20141; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:36:59 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA00187; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:14:43 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA17383; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:02:50 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA11337; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:02:58 EST Message-Id: <9202111902.AA11337@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2446; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:58:51 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 6571; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:57:56 EST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 17:20:27 GMT Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: Re: word spacing in Lojban X-To: gilson X-Cc: Lojban list To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: ; from "61510::GILSON" at Feb 11, 92 9:37 am Status: RO Bruce writes: > It is my understanding that word spacing in Lojban is nowhere significant. > Therefore, while Colin (and most people, including me) may find "se cmene" > easier to understand than "secmene" etc., what Dave did is not incorrect > Lojban. > > Bruce > I believe you are wrong Bruce. If it were so, the string "djacutcima" could be parsed as "djacu tcima" (water weather) or "djacutci ma" (is a water-shoe for what?). In speech these are disambiguated by the one compulsory stress rule: djAcutcIma vs djacUtcima. In writing, obligatory word-separation before and after brivla manages the task. kolin c.j.fine@bradford.ac.uk