Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:45 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA24641; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:34:20 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA03718; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:18:21 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA20071; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:18:26 EST Message-Id: <9202111818.AA20071@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2218; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:13:22 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 5655; Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:12:47 EST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 12:12:44 EST Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: word spacing in Lojban X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9202111438.AA31414@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>; from "61510::GILSON" at Feb 11, 92 9:37 am Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Feb 11 14:45:08 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN la brus. gilsn. cusku di'e > 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. Word-spacing is non-significant if stress is marked, but in normal Lojban written text, stress is marked only when non-penultimate. Thus the written text "lebridi" could represent "le bridi" (stress: /leBRIdi/) or "lebri di" (stress: /LEbridi/). Furthermore, the current parsing program cannot strip cmavo off the beginning of brivla, so it fails to split "lebridi" at all, treating it as a le'avla. The morphology algorithm that does correct resolution has been written down, but not yet reduced to working code. (The parser can cope with arbitrarily long cmavo compounds: "a'olenumidula" is fine.) -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban