[lojban-beginners] Re: la'i<somename>. - Unique semantics of letter combinations?

[jexOm. <jexOm@free.fr>]

coi. jens.

Le 29 août 04, à 12:02, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke a écrit :

> I read the claim, that
> > A stream of Lojban sounds can be uniquely broken up into its component
> > words according to specific rules.
> [ Reference Grammar, Chapter 4 ]

Yes.

> So how abount the stream
>
> .imiskicula'ilojban.
>
> Where do I know from whether I describe the thing named "'ilojban" or
> the set of named "lojban"?

That why pauses are sometimes mandatory, like the '.' in {.i}.

> BTW:
> ~ # ./jbofihe
> .imiskicula'ilojban.
> Unrecognizable word ''ilojban' at line 1 column 12

The jbofihe family of tools don't know how to split the words.

That's some basic comments, maybe others would like to add something...
Good night,
  Jérôme.