Re: [lojban] my new idea for onomato's

[Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU>]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:22:27PM -0000, la_okus wrote:
> ok, I made a thread a while back about onomatopoeias. I've come up 
> with a new idea for how a computer can parse them unambiguously:
> 
> Define sa'ei as "everything following this cmavo is an onomatopoeia 
> until it repeats". This allows you to make the word without regard 
> to cmene rules. And onomatopoeias are usually found in repeated 
> pairs anyway (especially japanese ones: gero-gero, ira-ira, gocha-
> gocha).
> 
> Would this be parsable? sa'ei mumu?

Not easily. This makes the language not at all context-free. And to
parse such a phrase, you have to maintain an arbirtrarily large stack.

Besides, how is doubling the word any better than adding a consonant to
it? The only advantage seems to be cuteness.

-- 
Rob Speer