[lojban-beginners] Re: interrelated vocab word length Re: Re: Hello list [introduction]

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

A Lojban speech stream, with emphasis and a few required pauses, can
only be decoded in to words in one way.  No natural language, that I
am aware of, has this feature.  No homonyms, nor groups of words
that can be interpreted different ways.  A famous English example
being "ice cream" versus "I scream".

-Robin

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:01:28PM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote:
> er... uhm... what does 'unambiguous morphology' mean?
> 
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> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:26:29AM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote:
> > I don't think words would get too long if one just used
> > single-syllable root words. That would yield more than 250 root
> > words with the same letters and VV-diphthongs Lojban uses. 
> 
> But would it preserve the unambiguous morphology?  I doubt it very
> much.
> 
> -Robin
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