[lojban-beginners] Re: Whitespace in written text

[Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name>]

I understand—thanks everyone; I didn't think about stress. So stress  
is significant and along with pauses. So that means that Mr. Reid's  
"lamari,as.NINmu.iDUNdafila.alis.feleCUKta.itaBLOta" is valid Lojban  
text.

Two more questions!

1) Is it okay for the spaces be omitted around a period in Lojban  
text? I don't think there can be any ambiguity there:
  la mari,as.ninmu .i dunda fi la.alis.fe le cukta .i ta blota

2) Lojban has mandatory pauses, but is it okay in speech for a pause  
to happen anywhere (as it's bound to happen in human conversation):
  Spoken: la . mari.as . ninmu . . . i dunda . . fi la .alis. fe le .  
cukta . i . ta blota

On 5 August 2009, at 7:19 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 20:04:48 Kevin Reid wrote:
> > No. Word breaks are ambiguous (I don't have an example handy) unless
> > you either use " " or "." between words, or mark the penultimate-
> > syllable stress on brivla.
>
> Here are some examples:
> "lo jbojbe na lojbo jbena lo jbojbena" consists of three parts  
> differing only
> by spaces in writing, and by stress in speech.
> "le krataigo" means "the hawthorn". "lekrataigo", if "le" is  
> stressed, lexes
> as "lekra tai go", which is meaningless, but is part of the  
> syntactically
> valid sentence "mi lekra tai go do gi ko'a".
>
> Pierre