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[lojban] Re: Do jbopre use terminators? (was: Is Lojban a CFG?)
On 7/13/06, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
If English *did* have Lojban-style phrase terminators, how often would
they be required? Less than Lojban, because English has more parts of
speech, and less nesting?
It is a myth that English has more parts of speech than Lojban's more
than a hundred.
If "cmavo" counts as one single part of speech in Lojban, then
"monosyllable" counts as one single part of speech in English too,
and English has only two parts of speech: monosyllables and
non-monosyllables.
But of course neither "cmavo" nor "monosyllable" are parts of speech
in any reasonable sense.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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