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

[jcowan@reutershealth.com]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> > Right, but the repetition could be 5,739 letters away.  Even if
> > computers can handle that (with annoying hacks), humans can't:  if you
> > have fubarbazamkuuks...tatatututitifubarbazamkuuks...tatatututito, you
> > have to then jump back to the beginning and reanalyze it, now that you
> > see that this is not a reduplication.
> 
> How is that different from zoi?

My understanding was that the syntax would be sa'ei (arbitrary letters)
(same arbitrary letters).  The zoi delimiter has to be a Lojban word,
however long, and really long Lojban words are unpronounceable because
you run out of breath and pauses are not permitted within a word.
(One of the reasons for zei, though not the original one, which was to
get fu'ivla into lujvo.)

> Which should always be used for that sort of thing anyways.  Last I
> checked, cows do not speak Lojban, hence either zoi or la'o should be
> used.

la'o would mean that a cow's utterance is named Muumuu, rather than actually
being "muumuu".

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