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

[jcowan@reutershealth.com]

la_okus scripsit:

> > And to parse such a phrase, you have to maintain an
> > arbirtrarily large stack.
> 
> Again, I'm not sure what a this means (forgive me). I figured all 
> the computer would have to do is search the text letter-by-letter 
> that comes after sa'ei, until it finds a repeat.

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.

> This, I can answer. Onomatopoeia have the unique requirement 
> of being flexible; they are supposed to mimic sounds. I just can't 
> bare to teach my child that a cow goes "muuuus"...

lo'e bakni cu bacru zoi gy. muuuuumuuuuu .gy

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