Re: [lojban] Re: "la" rule

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:41:32PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0500, Robert McIvor wrote:
> > 
> > I will assume you wish to have a rule that does not require
> > recognizing the presence of the 'forbidden' combinations in the
> > word.  To do this, one would have to have all cmene  marked with
> > one of the  name introducers like doi or la (I presume 'doi' is
> > normally used  like 'hoi' in Loglan to precede a name used as a
> > vocative.  

Yes.

> > If this  be true, then the parser can strip off the introducer,
> > and the  remainder up to the consonant and pause is a name (I
> > presume that a  person without a speech defect would not pause
> > in the middle of a  name).  The LaPlace problem was in
> > sequential names. For sequential  names we used the Loglan word
> > for hyphen 'ci', which added 'ci' to  the list of name markers.
> 
> You know, I think that actually works.  Or, at least, I can't
> think of any problems off the top of my head.
> 
> Call the Lojban name hyphen xi'i; laSTIvn.xi'iLAItl. has no
> ambiguity I can see.

However, {doilaSTIvn.} is ambiguous still.  It's not a particularily
hard ambiguity to fix (strip *all* name markers off the front), but
still.  Does Loglan allow that construct?

-Robin

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