From jkominek@miranda.org Mon May 19 10:21:56 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 19 May 2003 10:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19HoKh-0001vc-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:21:55 -0700 Received: (qmail 1419 invoked by uid 534); 19 May 2003 17:21:54 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:21:54 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: fu'ivla formation --- is this right? Message-ID: <20030519172154.GE10929@miranda.org> References: <000001c31d95$13e42fc0$0901000a@btcmp21> <3EC8C9EE.7030407@bilkent.edu.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC8C9EE.7030407@bilkent.edu.tr> Accept-Language: art-lojban, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-archive-position: 323 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Robin wrote: > Petroff, Tamara wrote: > > balalaika requires no spelling adjustments to bring it into line with > > lojban rules. > > Doesn't it break up into "ba la laika"? It would require adjustment to bring it into line for being a type-4 fu'ivla. Fortunately, she was prefixing the type-3 prefix to it, so everything was kosher. But it doesn't have any impermissible consonant clusters, letters/sounds not present in Lojban, etc, etc. (And I imagine that it sounds more or less like it should, as well.) -- Jay Kominek Multimedia is the opiate of the masses