On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:41:32PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0500, Robert McIvor wrote:
I will assume you wish to have a rule that does not require
recognizing the presence of the 'forbidden' combinations in
the word. To do this, one would have to have all cmene
marked with one of the name introducers like doi or la (I
presume 'doi' is normally used like 'hoi' in Loglan to
precede a name used as a vocative.
Yes.
If this be true, then the parser can strip off the
introducer, and the remainder up to the consonant and pause
is a name (I presume that a person without a speech defect
would not pause in the middle of a name). The LaPlace
problem was in sequential names. For sequential names we used
the Loglan word for hyphen 'ci', which added 'ci' to the list
of name markers.
You know, I think that actually works. Or, at least, I can't
think of any problems off the top of my head.
Call the Lojban name hyphen xi'i; laSTIvn.xi'iLAItl. has no
ambiguity I can see.
However, {doilaSTIvn.} is ambiguous still. It's not a
particularily hard ambiguity to fix (strip *all* name markers off
the front), but still. Does Loglan allow that construct?