[lojban] "Mooooos" (Re: my new idea for onomato's) (rspeer)

["la_okus" <xeubie@hotmail.com>]

Rob Speer wrote:

> > Would this be parsable? sa'ei mumu?
> 
> Not easily. This makes the language not at all context-free.

What do you mean by "context-free"?


> And to parse such a phrase, you have to maintain an
> arbirtrarily large stack.

Again, I'm not sure what a this means (forgive me). I figured all 
the computer would have to do is search the text letter-by-letter 
that comes after sa'ei, until it finds a repeat.

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

This, I can answer. Onomatopoeia have the unique requirement 
of being flexible; they are supposed to mimic sounds. I just can't 
bare to teach my child that a cow goes "muuuus"...

okus



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