Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tCAUI-0000ZSC; Sun, 5 Nov 95 21:12 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 75F3F04C ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 20:12:14 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 11:07:44 -0800 Reply-To: "John E. Clifford" Sender: Lojban list From: "John E. Clifford" Subject: rafsi X-To: lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 915 Lines: 16 Oops! (Night thoughts) Mark,l 's rafsi proposal does fail the internal resolution test in its present form: CAr+trAC for example is not distinguishable from CArt+rAc. I ball-park teh number of problematic CCCs at above 500, so pretty likely to have actual cases. To resolve this, mark,l will need either glue at the CVC-four-letter rafsi joins or seriously restrict the legitimate CVCs or, perhaps, go to only four-letter rafsi, with joins as needed. The first and last further diminish the advantage of his system over the present long-rafsi system, the second makes the chances of complete coverage smaller. The last version is, in fact, just the long rafsi format with an occasional dropped schwa. Glueing all CVC-fourletter joins is not strcitly necessary, of course, but specifying which ones don't need the y would make for an even more complicated set of rules added to the present complexity. pc>|83