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

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:32 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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".

Another famous example is "Time flies like a banana", where any of the
first three words could be the main verb of the sentence.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>