From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Oct 30 10:56:19 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 30 Oct 2000 18:56:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 1451 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 18:56:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Oct 2000 18:56:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 18:56:18 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02377; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:56:52 -0500 (EST) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39FDC46D.D7534EAD@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:56:45 -0500 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cyril Slobin , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Another morphology question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Cyril Slobin wrote: > Let us consider some vovel pair that doesn't form lojban > diphtong - for example, "ae". Is cmavo "xae" possible? No. > Is cmene "xaes" possible? Yes, and it is the same as "xa,es". > If answers are different, where is all this stuff documented? Alas, nowhere. The morphology algorithm (which tells you how to parse a string of letters, pauses, and stress into Lojban words) isn't in The Book because there were still corner cases that hadn't been worked out. > P.S. It seems that there are some bugs in my lojban.vim because of my > misunderstanding of all this stuff. Before fixing them I am trying to > realize what exact rules are. I'm sorry if my questions are trivial or > boring - all this trifles became important when you are explaining them > to computer. No, no, quite correct to ask. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein