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Re: [lojban] Lojban puzzles



On 06/22/2011 10:39 AM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
what becomes a wet thing under conditions of an event of it causing dryness?

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Muhammad Nael <muhammad.nael@gmail.com> wrote:
"ma binxo lo cilmo va'o
lonu ra sudgau"
What?!


I think the problem here is with the underlined word; Muhammad may not be familiar with compound cmavo.  Is that it?

Basically, when you have a bunch of cmavo in a row, sometimes people write them with no spaces between (because after all, we can tell where they start and end by the consonant-vowel structure), especially if the cmavo-phrase is in some sense tightly linked together.  So {lo nu} is a very common construction, and people sometimes like to write is as {lonu}.

Yow.  I wonder how this will work out in your Arabic orthography.  Leaving spaces out is not such a huge deal in printed Latin letters, but it alters the shapes of things hugely in Arabic, potentially making it harder to recognize the word as a stream of cmavo.

~mark

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