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Re: [bpfk] extended rafsi and a tosmabru/slinku'i boondoggle





On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:

btw, my question was not about throwing away rafsi but instead to get an easy way of determining whether a given word is a valid one.

Determining which class it belongs to is another question that is solved by the full peg now.

With the current system, determining whether a given word is valid is tantamount to determining which class it belongs to. 
 
My question was "can an ordinary human without a computer detect a word as being valid/invalid?" if yes then what would be 'eir steps to determine that.

Of course we can. The rules are somewhat baroque, but by no means impossible to apply. You probably already know how to detect valid cmevla, cmavo and lujvo. The last case, fu'ivla, you get by a process of elimination: if the candidate is a valid string of syllables with penultimate stress, it's not a cmevla, it's not a gismu or lujvo, it doesn't begin with a cmavo that can fall off leaving valid lojban words, and it passes the slinku'i test, then it's a valid fu'ivla. It's perfectly possible for humans to check all of that without the help of a computer.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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