From xeubie@hotmail.com Mon May 10 14:59:25 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: xeubie@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 55686 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 21:59:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 May 2004 21:59:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n27.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.83) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2004 21:59:22 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.191] by n27.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2004 21:58:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:58:54 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040510202434.GZ8616@skunk.reutershealth.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 778 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.83 From: "la_okus" X-Originating-IP: 69.162.47.2 Subject: fubarbazamkuuks... (Re: "Mooooos") (cowan) X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=170795535 X-Yahoo-Profile: la_okus X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22236 --- jcowan wrote: > 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 is quite a far out situation. Nobody is going to make an onomato that is 5,739 letters long.