From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 13 10:09:55 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9OeQ-000551-Oa for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:09:55 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9OeN-00054t-VB for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:09:53 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:09:51 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: double letters Message-ID: <20070713170951.GP6403@digitalkingdom.org> References: <1184342931.4697a393aed1a@ssl0.ovh.net> <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5198 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:06:55PM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:08:51PM +0200, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > > > I can't think of a Lojban word featuring neither consonant > > > doubling nor vowel doubling. Can you? > > > > > > Is there an explicit rule about doubling of letters? > > > > Yes: don't. Ever. Even in borrowings. Of course, you can do > > whatever you want inside la'o/zoi quotes, including bird calls, > > doubled letters, and fart noises. > > .ii .uu nai dai Erm. Sorry; doubled consonants. Doubled vowels are, clearly, allowed, but only in special situations. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/