From thinkit8@lycos.com Fri Sep 07 22:57:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 8 Sep 2001 05:57:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 18128 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2001 05:57:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Sep 2001 05:57:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n27.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.2.135) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Sep 2001 05:57:00 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.95] by fh.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 Sep 2001 05:57:00 -0000 Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 05:56:59 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: lujvo expander? Message-ID: <9ncbvb+3g3s@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9ncb1s+9bfe@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 789 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10565 --- In lojban@y..., thinkit8@l... wrote: > is there any utility to expand all the lujvo in a text of lojban into > component gismu (and cmavo)? so "selsku" becomes se cusku and such. > while it's at it a compound cmavo expander would be nice too, > so "pare" becomes "pa re". this could be quite useful for people new > to the language. vlatai, by Richard Curnow, seems pretty close, so i > might look into that. if something like this doesn't exist i'd be > glad to do it and make it available. oops, i forgot all about the "lujvo aren't logical" chapter (chapter 12, dog house and white house). i was thinking of just a mechanical separator, with maybe a demarker like "_" to show why something might be a little off. so "selsku" becomes "_se cusku_".