From cowan@ccil.org Tue Mar 27 19:45:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 03:45:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 72071 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 03:45:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 03:45:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 03:45:40 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14i6u6-0006Qn-00; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:45:50 -0500 Subject: Re: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC] In-Reply-To: from Chris Double at "Mar 28, 2001 02:09:35 pm" To: Chris Double Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:45:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Chris Double scripsit: > Given that gismu are five letters and a simple letter change can result > in another valid gismu or in a non-gismu that could match several others > depending on how you change the letters. If it results in an incorrect > gismu then the various arguments (x1, x2, etc) are all different resulting > in a wildly different meaning to the sentence. There are some defenses: for example, a change of "t" to "d", or of "p" to "f", or other single changes to a closely related consonant, in a gismu cannot produce another gismu. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter