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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:20:45 -0500, Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> wrote:
> If you take all the spaces out of a Lojban text, does it change 
> or lose information? 

You can remove the spaces only if you don't omit any "." and 
also mark all brivla stress. It is more economical in terms of number 
of different characters needed to use a space after a brivla to mark 
the stress, instead of  having to use five different stressed vowel
symbols.

> Can they be put back in by a computer? 

The parser can insert spaces between words, but because
spaces are optional after cmavo the result will not necessarily
be the same as what you had before removing them.

> For that matter, what if you change every consonant to 1 and 
> every vowel to 0? Can the spaces still be put back in?

You need to differentiate stressed from unstressed vowels,
"y" from other vowels and consonants, and also you may need
to recognize dipthongs from non-diphthong vowel pairs, depending
on what you do with the apostrophe and what the BPFK decides 
about allowed vowel combinations in fu'ivla. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes