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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:07:10PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> 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. 

More so than ZOI?  How, exactly?

I have no idea why ZOI isn't sufficient for this purpose, though.

-Robin

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