On Friday 26 March 2004 20:37, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > > On Friday 26 March 2004 17:07, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > > > > I just saw the entry for support for compound words under Important > > > > Items in the To Do section of the pre-release manual docs. The > > > > language I'd like to add support for has the potential to have > > > > millions of compound words. It has some simple rules for combining > > > > them (like, no consonant pairs). If I can be of some help, then > > > > please let me know. > > > > I didn't mean "no consonant pairs" in the above, I meant "no double > > consonant pairs", like dd, cc, gg, etc. > > > > > I need details. I am especially interested in cases where > > > concatenating two words together is not sufficient. > > > > Typically an extra letter is added -- sorta like a glue that keeps them > > separate, but together. When two consonants connect that -are not- > > permissible, then the letter 'y' is placed between them. So, "dd" becomes > > "dyd". > > > > There's also the case where you'd need to add a consonant to meet the > > "you must have a permissible consonant pair within the first five letters > > of the word, excluding the letters y and ' (apostrophe)" rule. When you > > have a word like "soi" and you want to combine it with "sai" (creating > > "soisai", which is illegal) you use the letter "r" to create a > > permissible consonant pair. In this case, "soisai" would need to be > > "soirsai" to be legal. If, however, "r" cannoy be used (like when it > > would create a "rr" consonant pair), then you would use "n". > > OK. I see. Can it get more complicated than that?
Yes. In fact, it would be much easier to point you to the reference grammar. http://lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter4.html The chapter should be understandable on its own. It also gives a good background on some linguistic concepts. :-) I can't really phrase what the chapter details any better than it does, but, if you stumble on something, then let me know and I'll try to explain. -- Christopher Hornbaker Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the Free State Project! http://www.freestateproject.org "Liberty in Our Lifetime" Was I helpful? Let me know! http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=Jilks _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
