[lojban] Re: mimiklama

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:55:28AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2004 at 23:57, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > jbofi'e successfully parses "mimiklama" as "mi mi klama".
> 
> Rather than, say, what?

Failing completely.

> > I'm guessing that that's not *really* OK; any opinions?
> 
> I thought you could add any number of cmavo to the beginning of any
> brivla since the beginning of the brivla was unambiguously defined by
> the consonant cluster? So for me {mimiklama} = {mi mi klama} (and
> {mimikla} would be {mi mikla} with an unknown gismu *mikla).

OK, what about 'mimibilga'?  Obviously 'mimibIlga' is handleable, but
without the stress indicated?  It's the lack of stress indicators that
I'm really asking about.

> And otherwise tosmabru-words wouldn't exist, unless I'm
> misunderstanding something.

<nod>  I guess what I'm asking is "in absence of stress indicators, does
tosmabru still happen?".  What about "miklamami"?

> > Is it reasonable to have a rule that says that a cmavo can be
> > followed by spaces, another cmavo, or a consonant cluster? 
> 
> Currently, what follows doesn't have to be a cluster as long as a
> cluster follows "soon" after - e.g. {mijimpe} is {mi jimpe} even
> though the cluster "mp" isn't immediately after "mi". 

Even without the stress?

> Are you proposing to change this so that {mijimpe} is now unparseable
> or a fu'ivla?

Absolutely not!  I'm just trying to understand.

-Robin

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