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I decided to delay my reply so that I would have some progress to report. Unfortunately my reading has been going far slower that I would like. I've read around fifty pages of Henry Sweet's ``A New English Grammar'', and done no mathematics. This grammar eventually teaches how English grammatical forms changed between Old, Middle, and Modern English, but so far it has only concerned the basics (even still the majority of which I'm learning for the first time). I'll try to reflect on why my studies are going slowly tomorrow to see if I can make a correction (going to sleep so late tonight is unlikely to help).
The most important lesson is learning how to think, which no school I'm aware of truly teaches. I prefer to think my mathematical ignorance isn't a damning issue, and at least I can always learn more; I'd conveniently prefer to think the baser ideas are more important.
Foundations are always more important than the things which build on them. Despite this I do think proof is mandatory to understand mathematics, and that the rigours of the format may be part of learning to think. Further, depending on the field if you value proof complex math can quickly become relevant; for example, the foundations of mathematical physics includes topics more advanced than those typically taught to mathematics undergraduates. All that being said I'm slightly biased.
Have we only ever conversed here?
No, I used to frequent your IRC channel, and we've spoken a few times on the associated forum. Even when I was in your IRC channel, if I recall correctly, I read your writing far more often than I spoke to you.
Don't die.
A few months ago I was frightened by my illness for a short time, but I've been consistently improving over the last month. At this point I'm effectively where I was before with the exception of the bad habits I gained in the interim.
I'd've liked to have no spacing slot in the inter-word punctuation code, but it causes this issue; an alternation is marking such things, but my design should avoid the ability to express them as long as feasible, for this is easy to add and hard to remove. It also interferes with word counting. I expect better things here with Latin, which I recall from my schooling had no inter-word punctuation, and which users thereof would have a higher tolerance to any slight oddities of my system when looked upon in some ways, such as exit being two words.
I hadn't thought that breaking up complex words into morphemes would necessitate encoding word spacing. That is unfortunate. I don't know any Latin at this point, as mentioned earlier, in English however I know that splitting compounds doesn't always preserve meaning. Blackbird is not the same as black bird for example. Perhaps this is less relevant in Latin, or not even what you're proposing would be at issue.
I've already thought of how to have the system able to recognize words not in the primary dictionary, primarily with regard to a language such as Latin in which adding words would be more work, without polluting each auxiliary dictionary. Any word suggestion system should simply have its own storage for such words.
That seems to be a fine solution for this problem.