From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 13 10:13:28 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9Oho-0005BX-Qk for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:13:26 -0700 Received: from 25.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.37.103]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9Ohg-0005Aa-KL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:13:23 -0700 Received: (qmail 13349 invoked by uid 503); 13 Jul 2007 17:13:33 -0000 Received: (QMFILT: 1.0); 13 Jul 2007 17:13:33 -0000 Received: from b7.ovh.net (HELO mail237.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.57) by 25.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 13 Jul 2007 17:13:33 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 13 Jul 2007 17:12:54 -0000 Received: from 17.43-225-89.dsl.completel.net (17.43-225-89.dsl.completel.net [89.225.43.17]) by ssl0.ovh.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:12:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1184346774.4697b2965019d@ssl0.ovh.net> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:12:54 +0200 From: m.kornig@sondal.net To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: double letters References: <1184342931.4697a393aed1a@ssl0.ovh.net> <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 89.225.43.17 X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5199 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: m.kornig@sondal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Selon Robin Lee Powell : > 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. Not quite true. I've found two words: {uu} and {uunai}. Maybe double u is an exception?