Re: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC]

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Chris Double scripsit:

> Given that gismu are five letters and a simple letter change can result
> in another valid gismu or in a non-gismu that could match several others
> depending on how you change the letters. If it results in an incorrect
> gismu then the various arguments (x1, x2, etc) are all different resulting
> in a wildly different meaning to the sentence.

There are some defenses:  for example, a change of "t" to "d", or of "p" to "f",
or other single changes to a closely related consonant, in a gismu cannot
produce another gismu.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter