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Re: [lojban] Named multiples





2010/5/19 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
Anything preceded by "la" is a name.

That is. {la mersedes bents} always was {named (mersedes bents)}. After the unification, {mersedes bents karce} can be {[named (mersedes)][named bents][karce]} or {[named (mersedes bents)][karce]}, longer names will give a lot more.
 
And, like for any other word, you cannot pause in the middle of a
cmevla

Not sure. IMO, given the properly stressed speech, listener can recover the accidental extra pause between the syllables of the long gismu/lujvo/fu'ivla/cmevla, with some exceptions _like_ pause before "ku" in "la SELBRIkuLIKENAMEs", which, most probably, will be detected as "parsing error".

It is impossible to avoid the extra pauses in spoken conversation (need to take a breath in the middle of a-very-long-and-difficult-foreign-name, network loose several voice packets, noise, speaker distraction). So, the change can be dangerous.

BTW, pause in the speech is annoying, so, (while it is OK for written language,) the spoken one, (trying to exploit the "isomorphism" with the text,( full of cmene,)) can become a whole mess.

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