[lojban-beginners] Re: Dots and spaces (was: Logical connectives)

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com>:

> On 6/17/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
> >
> > My personal opinion is that texts are easier to
> > read if words are relatively short. Having a few
> > additional spaces doesn't hinder quick reading,
> > I think.
> >
> > So my personal advice would be: as many word separation
> > as possible!
>
>
> Actually, an easy/quick reading does not necessarily result from simple
> separation of words, but rather from tactic separation of
> grammatical/semantical
> blocks of which the text is made up. Indeed, there are languages where
> spaces are not as conventional as in the European languages and yet the
> speakers are capable of quick reading. Chinese speakers, for example, can
> generally perform skimming & scanning techniques better than English
> speakers, while there's hardly a space in the Chinese text.
>
> There seem to be more people who do not put a space between {le} and {nu}
> than those who do. Probably because that's easier to read and grasp.
> Separation of words does not necessarily guarantee easiness in reading. Too
> many spaces between words in Lojban sometimes make the text inconveniently
> fragmented. The more I study Lojban, the more I find {.iseri'abo} facile and
> {.i se ri'a bo} disconcerting.

Interesting. This is probably convient for an experienced
reader/speaker, in particular for a group of smaller words
that often apear together.

Martin