fubarbazamkuuks... (Re: "Mooooos") (cowan)

["la_okus" <xeubie@hotmail.com>]

--- jcowan 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.

This is quite a far out situation. Nobody is going to make an 
onomato that is 5,739 letters long.