word spacing in Lojban

["61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!CCF4.NRL.NAVY.MIL!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!gilson!61510.decnet>]

CJ FINE <C.J.Fine%BRADFORD.AC.UK@CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU> writes:

>Dave:
>>
>>
>> la jan. coun. pu spuda mi lu
>>         la deiv. kortesis. cusku di'e
>>                 to'i sectuca sa'a toi
>> li'u
>> .i mi ckire do zu'o do ciksi le piro rafsi zo du
>> .i ra'unai mi bacru le mi secmene ta'i lu la deiv. korteizis. li'u

>I'm not at all happy about you running the SE onto the front of the
>BRIVLA. The one place where the spoken/written isomorphism of lojban is
>a little strained is in identifying brivla - the criteria for
>distinguishing them in speech and writing, while (I believe)
>demonstrably isomorphic, are different - stress vs. word-breaks. Thus
>"sectuca" and "secmene" are confusing. Of course you can use the rafsi
>instead of the cmavo: "selctuca" and "selcmene" (I haven't checked that
>those CCC's are allowed, but they seem OK to me).

It is my understanding that word spacing in Lojban is nowhere significant.
Therefore, while Colin (and most people, including me) may find "se cmene"
easier to understand than "secmene" etc., what Dave did is not incorrect
Lojban.

                                                           Bruce