[lojban-beginners] Re: the space between words

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

la .gejyspa. cu cusku di'e
> It's really a matter of personal preference.  In fact, you could
> right all consecutive cmavon in a row as a single word, since the
> lojban parses unambiguously.  So for example: klama fa mi fi la
> .atlantas. fu le karce fe la bastn. fo le dargu (from Chapter 9
> of the CRG) could just as easily have been written klama famifila
> .atlantas fule karce fele bastn. fole dargu.

Or even as {klama famifila.atlantas. fulekarce felabastn.} since cmavo also
break off gismu and (if the last cmavo is one of {la lai doi}) off cmevla.

> "lemi" = "my" is really the same as "le mi" => "le ... pe mi" = "the....of
mi"
> It's just that English speakers tend to think of these constructions
> as indivisible groups, so they write them together.  Same thing
> with .iseri'abo and others.

Though this sometimes leads to confusion, as when people think that e.g.
{ganai} is one word, when it isn't.

mu'o mi'e .filip.