Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Another CFJ

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/02 at 11:23 PM Rob Speer wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:03:37PM -0400, Glotmorf wrote:
>> "Glotmorf is subject to syllable restrictions under Entropy" is false;
>and
>>
>> "Glotmorf is not subject to syllable restrictions under Entropy" is also
>false.
>
>Not quite true, because neither of those statements refer to a numerical
>value. They depend on something else: "Glotmorf's Entropy is higher than
>the cutoff for syllable restrictions", which would be false.
>
>Of course, "Glotmorf's Entropy is lower than the cutoff for syllable
>restrictions" is also false, but a rule would tend to only check one of
>those statements, based on the way it is phrased.
>
>Rules which assume that one of a number of different cases has to be
>true could have a problem. Are there any of those?
>--
>Rob Speer

Actually, the Entropy rule is one, because it checks on four different levels: below the one-syl threshold, above the one-syl but below the two-syl, above the two-syl but below the three-syl, and above the three-syl.

						Glotmorf