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[lojban] Re: Average length of sentences and words in Lojban versus natlangs

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Subject: [lojban] Re: Average length of sentences and words in Lojban versus natlangs
From: Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:41:06 -0700
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:46:20AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Lojban has rules for unambiguous parsing and lexing. How much longer,
> on average, does this make Lojban sentences and words than sentences
> and words in languages that don't have such rules?

I have no idea how one would answer that question with the tiny little
corpus we currently have.  Suggestions welcome.

-Robin

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- Average length of sentences and words in Lojban versus natlangs
  - From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>

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