Re: Re: [lojban] tosmabru test

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On , Ross Ogilvie <oges007@gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue is that there is no whitespace in speech.

I would have a very hard time trying not to "pronounce" a whitespace as short pause.
I would read {pa plise} and {paplise} differently putting a short interruption between {pa} and {plise} in the first case.
The fact that they are the same just put more strain on the listener that has to break up words in his mind without the help of that short interruption.
 
After all, we do have {.} so if I really meant two words, why didn't I say {pa.plise}?

But, I'm not complaining, just wanted to understand the benefits. So far it seems to me that this would help the speaker making him free to pronounce words as a single flow with a price for the listener that has to break things up without counting on the short pauses that the whitespaces imply (at least to me).

remod

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