From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon May 10 13:25:07 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 91819 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 20:25:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 May 2004 20:25:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2004 20:25:07 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA08090; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 May 2004 16:24:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:24:34 -0400 To: la_okus Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040510202434.GZ8616@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040510000710.GA20485@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com Subject: Re: [lojban] "Mooooos" (Re: my new idea for onomato's) (rspeer) X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22225 la_okus scripsit: > > And to parse such a phrase, you have to maintain an > > arbirtrarily large stack. > > Again, I'm not sure what a this means (forgive me). I figured all > the computer would have to do is search the text letter-by-letter > that comes after sa'ei, until it finds a repeat. Right, but the repetition could be 5,739 letters away. Even if computers can handle that (with annoying hacks), humans can't: if you have fubarbazamkuuks...tatatututitifubarbazamkuuks...tatatututito, you have to then jump back to the beginning and reanalyze it, now that you see that this is not a reduplication. > This, I can answer. Onomatopoeia have the unique requirement > of being flexible; they are supposed to mimic sounds. I just can't > bare to teach my child that a cow goes "muuuus"... lo'e bakni cu bacru zoi gy. muuuuumuuuuu .gy -- Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN John Cowan in any language. --Allen Brown jcowan@reutershealth.com