Re: [lojban] Breaking up compound cmavo

[Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> seidensticker@msn.com scripsit:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to divide cmavo that have been stuck 
> > together.  For example, consider co'omi'e.  The approach I'd taken 
> > was to compare the word against a sorted cmavo list, increasing the 
> > size of the extracted token character by character until I found an 
> > exact match.  The problem with this is that after extracting "co", 
> > I'd have found a match and then would try to make sense out 
> > of "'omi'e" -- without success.  
> 
> Break in front of each consonant, that's all.  FOr this purpose ' is
> not a consonant.
> 

Also, if any periods (full-stops) occur in the word, break at those too,
as though they were a space.

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