[lojban-beginners] Re: nitcu le denpa lerfu fi ma

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   No, no, you misunderstand me... there is no pause between "jai" and
> > "reicnz", but there was BEFORE jai .... since lojban does not need a pause
> > after the closing quote-word (or ANY word, except of course if it ends in a
> > consonant (or any other spot the grammar requires it)) the pause before
> > gyrations would be "heard" as "close quote-reicns" which would therefore be
> > ungrammatical, since a cmevla couldn't appear in that position.
> 
> But that's not right. It is not enough to hear the sounds "j" "a" "i"
> in a row in
> order to know that you have heard the word {jai}. In order to know that you
> have the word {jai} those sounds must be either followed by a pause, by
> another cmavo or by a brivla. If they are followed by anything else, you don't
> have the word {jai}. You have either the beginning of a cmevla or the
> beginning of a non-word string, neither of which can be the closing
> delimiter.

So you're saying that you can use {jai} as a delimiter for {jairaicn}, but
not for {jairadno}.  That seems very likely to cause errors, even in careful
use.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
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