From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 22 18:13:31 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EIc82-0004NU-Vw for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:13:31 -0700 Received: from 203-214-82-33.dyn.iinet.net.au ([203.214.82.33] helo=arran4.homeip.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EIc7y-0004NG-Ir for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:13:30 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.254] (unknown [192.168.1.254]) by arran4.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781B43F429 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:22:53 +1000 (EST) From: Arran To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: consonant clusters (was: Just got my speakers back online...) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:12:52 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <737b61f3050922084532fef806@mail.gmail.com> <925d175605092208593c9cbf5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d175605092208593c9cbf5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509231112.52418.arran4@arran4.homeip.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2287 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.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: arran4@arran4.homeip.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners I want to hear someone pronounce "cidjrspageti" On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:59 am, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 9/22/05, Chris Capel wrote: > > On 9/22/05, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > > Indeed. For example {catra} means "kills", while > > > {catcra} means "map-front". > > > > I thought Lojban didn't allow three-consonant clusters? > > Three-consonant clusters are common in lujvo. In fu'ivla, > you can have up to four consonant clusters (at least in > one proposed morphology, this matter is still not settled.) > If you count vocalic consonants you can get monsters > like {cidjrspageti} too. > > mu'o mi'e xorxes -- -4 How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken lightbulb? Two: one to decide what to change it into, and another to figure out what kind of bulb would emit broken light.