Re: Logical?

Kala Tunu scripsit:

> i guess
> that's why Lojban makes clustering word patterns like CVCCV or features "pause"
> as John Cowan wrote it (i can' check though, because i'm not willing to BUY a
> conlang grammar!).
Well foo on you too. :-)

There is an online version at
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar.html , though.

> Re. natlangs, don't you think that in a way chinese words are kind of
> selfsegregating?
Not really.  The first question is, are Chinese morphemes self-segregating,
and the answer is that one syllable = one morpheme is a rule of thumb
only; the morpheme -r is less than a syllable, and there are now a
huge number of monomorphemic multisyllabic borrowings; the word for
"Bolshevik" has 4 syllables, e.g.

Second, words proper are not only not self-segregating, Chinese people
don't even agree on where the boundaries fall: as I was posting a while
back, the term "word" (ci2) is a technical term in Chinese, almost like
"morpheme" in English; the natural term is zi4, meaning "morpheme/
syllable/written character."

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