From biomass@hobbiton.org Sun Mar 25 05:14:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: biomass@hobbiton.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 13:14:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 40296 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 13:14:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 13:14:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO elrond.hobbiton.org) (216.161.236.97) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 14:15:51 -0000 Received: from hobbiton.org (biomass@thorin.hobbiton.org [216.161.236.98]) by elrond.hobbiton.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2PDEpq28747 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:14:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (biomass@localhost) by hobbiton.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2PDCxR20732 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:12:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:12:59 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: biomass@thorin To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Uses of 'y' Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Avital Oliver As I understood, 'y' is used only between rafsi in a lujvo, where without using 'y', there would be an illegal consonant cluster. Also, as I understand, any consonant cluster which is not 'easy' to pronounce may have a 'short un-Lojbanic' vowel in between. If this is true, why is there a real need for 'y'? Why can't people just implicitly add 'y', without there being a formal letter for 'y'? Bye, Avital.