Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFLU8-0008Th-Pq for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFLU8-0008Ta-Nb for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: interrelated vocab word length Re: Re: Hello list [introduction] Message-ID: <20050327001832.GQ10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1336 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1422 A Lojban speech stream, with emphasis and a few required pauses, can only be decoded in to words in one way. No natural language, that I am aware of, has this feature. No homonyms, nor groups of words that can be interpreted different ways. A famous English example being "ice cream" versus "I scream". -Robin On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:01:28PM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote: > er... uhm... what does 'unambiguous morphology' mean? > > = = = Original message = = = > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:26:29AM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote: > > I don't think words would get too long if one just used > > single-syllable root words. That would yield more than 250 root > > words with the same letters and VV-diphthongs Lojban uses. > > But would it preserve the unambiguous morphology? I doubt it very > much. > > -Robin > > -- > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" > Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. > Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. > > > > > -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/