From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu May 13 17:22:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 May 2004 17:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BOQT0-0001JL-Dm for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 17:22:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:22:22 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? Message-ID: <20040514002222.GP4461@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20040513190312.00ab4e10@pop.east.cox.net> <20040513233216.92437.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040513233216.92437.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7827 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:32:16PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > In any case, while I admit "ybu" would be a wart type-of word, the > alternative seems worse to me: "You can hesitate between any pair of > words except after "zo", before "bu", before or after "zei" or between > "lo'u-le'u"". Hesitation is not something so easily controllable. I certainly see your point, but what you are talking about is so clearly a change to the language as defined (rather than merely a change to the "pre-processor" handling) that it's clearly outside the scope of what I'm trying to do. Sorry. > This would make zo-, bu- and zei-phrases especially tight, such that > they can't be broken by hesitation. Almost word-like. Just thought you'd sneak that in there, huh? :-) Of course, words in Lojban *can* be broken by hesitation, so I'm not sure what your point is. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi