[lojban-beginners] non-linear writing, was Re: Orthography

[mungojelly@ixkey.info]

Quoting Penguino <spheniscine@gmail.com>:

> Getting rid of the terminators would interfere with audio-visual
> isomorphism; however feel free to explore as you wish. I think Lojban will
> make a pretty good "base" for such a system.

Well the thing with writing nonlinearly is that it doesn't necessarily  
match up to a particular linear version.  You could read out the same  
nonlinear sentence several different ways, resulting in different  
linear sentences which require different terminators.

For instance suppose you had the sentence:

.i le gerku cu bajra (the dog runs)

And then you run two different relative phrases off the end of  
"gerku": "poi xekri" (the black one) and "noi se prami mi" (which  
incidentally I love).  You could then read that out as two different  
linear sentences:

.i le gerku poi xekri noi se prami mi bajra
-- i don't believe you need any terminators there?? or--

.i le gerku noi se prami mi ge'u poi xekri cu bajra
-- which requires both phrases be terminated somehow.

mu'o mi'e doi bret.