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Re: word spacing in Lojban

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> 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.

Word-spacing is non-significant if stress is marked, but in normal Lojban
written text, stress is marked only when non-penultimate.  Thus the written text
"lebridi" could represent "le bridi" (stress: /leBRIdi/) or "lebri di"
(stress: /LEbridi/).

Furthermore, the current parsing program cannot strip cmavo off the beginning
of brivla, so it fails to split "lebridi" at all, treating it as a le'avla.
The morphology algorithm that does correct resolution has been written down,
but not yet reduced to working code.  (The parser can cope with arbitrarily
long cmavo compounds:  "a'olenumidula" is fine.)

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