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

[Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net>]

If you take all the spaces out of a Lojban text, does it change or lose information? Can they be put back in by a computer? For that matter, what if you change every consonant to 1 and every vowel to 0? Can the spaces still be put back in?
- epkat

lojban-beginners@chain.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".
>
>-Robin
>
>On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:01:28PM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote:
>> er... uhm... what does 'unambiguous morphology' mean?
>> 
>> = = = Original message = = =
>> 
>> 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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