From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Mon Oct 15 14:51:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 15 Oct 2001 21:51:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 9083 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2001 21:51:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Oct 2001 21:51:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Oct 2001 21:51:17 -0000 Received: from du-008-0065.freeuk.com ([212.126.151.65] helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 15tFdj-0002Em-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:51:16 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 15tFZe-0000DL-00; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:47:02 +0100 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:47:01 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] le vlatai be zo damskrima Message-ID: <20011015224701.B423@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <0110142328460N.02047@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0110142328460N.02047@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:28:45PM -0400 X-Mailer: mutt/1.2i (Linux 2.0.36 i486) From: Richard Curnow On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:28:45PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I found the word {damskrima} on the sports page and ran it through vlatai, > which rejected it. I don't see what's wrong with it, other than not making > much sense. Is this a bug in vlatai, or is it really an invalid word? > I think it's because the consonant cluster is too long. There was a discussion a while back which set the limit in fu'ivla at 3 consonants in a row, unless one is syllabic with consonants surrounding it. So "mskr" is >3 letters and the "m" and "r" (both syllabic) are at the ends of the string, so don't "reset" the count. If this algorithm is wrong, let's reopen the discussion as to what the requirement is, and I'll make the necessary changes after we've decided. (Sigh in advance.) -- Richard. ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow | C++: n., An octopus made by Weston-super-Mare, UK | nailing extra legs on a cat. http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ |