From phma@webjockey.net Thu Jan 02 18:58:07 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 3 Jan 2003 02:58:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 29076 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 02:58:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jan 2003 02:58:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 02:58:07 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18UI2A-0000Rp-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:58:06 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18UI0n-0000RW-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:56:41 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18UHyv-0000RC-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:54:45 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 71B6B2A9E; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Can a fu'ivla begin with five or more consonants? Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:54:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301022154.16085.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 3692 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:18, Craig wrote: > >The Book states that a brivla cannot begin with more than two consonants > > or have a cluster of more than three consonants. The latter does not > > apply to fu'ivla, so I am wondering about the former as well. It is > > possible to make arbitrarily long strings of consonants consisting > > entirely of initial pairs by repeating "stct" or "zdjd". It is also > > possible to make a string of five consonants all of whose pairs are > > initial, so I came up with a pair of strings. Is {stcmlatu} a word, or is > > {lestcmlatu} a word? > > and, of course, can we say things like "doi .tctctctctc. mi tstststsa"? .o'i le krotalu cu batci! mu'omi'e pier.