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>> What's a good way to handle names in a self-segmenting >> engelang that constitutes an optimal balance between (a) preserving >> self-segmentation, (b) distorting the original name as little as possible, >> and (c) concision. How important is self-segmentation? When JCB started in the 50s it was a big deal, but today my watch is a more powerful computer than he ever used. It seems to me that if present state-of-the art speech recognition software can perform word breaking about as well as a human using a reasonable amount of resources, then making that part of a language design is a waste of time. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@hidden.email> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC