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

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Ah. Well I see absolutely no reason why an interrelated vocab
shouldn't be able to have this feature, as long as there are enough
possible root words, which there seems to be. The hardest part might
be to make the distinction between words in an elegant way. One might
end all words in 'n', which isn't very elegant, but fast and easy and
most people should be able to pronounce it from what I've read so
far. Or one might have a class of suffixes that always end a word. Or
one could combine the two, so, say, half the words would have
grammatical suffixes at the end, and those that didn't would end in n.
Then Litten Brown Foxn Jumpen Overn Then Fencen...
Ten Liten Bon Fon Jupen Oven Ten Fecen, ton junin lakon berulikon
hejelin gesatun hen gerotin...

- Shindra

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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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