From phma@webjockey.net Fri Apr 30 04:46:58 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 31445 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 11:46:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2004 11:46:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 11:46:57 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8F4214B91; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:46:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404300746.20125.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Average length of sentences and words in Lojban versus natlangs X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22065 Lojban has rules for unambiguous parsing and lexing. How much longer, on average, does this make Lojban sentences and words than sentences and words in languages that don't have such rules? phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa