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

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

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:24:34PM -0400, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> 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.

How is that different from zoi?

> > 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

Which should always be used for that sort of thing anyways.  Last I
checked, cows do not speak Lojban, hence either zoi or la'o should be
used.

-Robin

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