2010/3/10 Jorge Llambías <jjllamb...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:51 PM, tijlan <jbotij...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If the name is meant to have two parts, probably "zi'eful.favysejmiv" >> with an inbetween dot is the safest option in the parser-oriented, >> formal areas of Lojbanistan. But people (including myself) often opts >> to omit dots for aesthetic or pragmatic reasons (e.g. "the >> letter-space is enough for us humans to see the division of words"). > > Actually, it's the other way around. The parser only needs a space to > know that in that context it represents an obligatory pause. The dot > is optional, and there only for the benefit of the humans, as a > remainder that they must include a pause there.
But jbofi'e seems to be as much helped by the dot as by a space when it's given "iu.ui" at one time and "iu ui" at another time. And: in the case of "iu.ui", the space is optional; in the case of "iu ui", the dot is optional. It's the same for cmevla cases like "la brod.brod"/"la brod brod", "la zi'eful.favysajmiv"/"la zi'eful favysajmiv", etc.
