On 7/13/06, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
If English *did* have Lojban-style phrase terminators, how often would they be required? Less than Lojban, because English has more parts of speech, and less nesting?
It is a myth that English has more parts of speech than Lojban's more than a hundred. If "cmavo" counts as one single part of speech in Lojban, then "monosyllable" counts as one single part of speech in English too, and English has only two parts of speech: monosyllables and non-monosyllables. But of course neither "cmavo" nor "monosyllable" are parts of speech in any reasonable sense. mu'o mi'e xorxes