From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 13 10:17:05 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9OlI-0005ID-T8 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:17:04 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9Ol7-0005I0-Kb for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:16:58 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so483941wxd for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:16:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=cPLAurjVradpcJnJCz2/SA1faS5pejcK/cady0JUh47GulWupNBg1EbbQtQLxxacJ0NqUVsmSCPVZNkin+vpIx6F9AXBl3q796TRLdG+Go1JypO+v/eL38w4kOmrEsDagZabo/AHd3I6prRaIY2BaqndQpcgxvxPXz6PjZuLisQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZeoXBosK4CBuCy+ZCkS8oSqrFZWda+lAOPzeXNNaOmY9Il049a9A3ahJhpl9Gd6l8gPZfk3q4V3Zs6MgQkBItplC3NEbUl3w9Jczshk3VdDrJ5hUhbhejLY9dbuEsFnxQ5QRiLvHUp/5kl9wQlhlq9eYXlu0mBceQANrCBiItHQ= Received: by 10.70.45.10 with SMTP id s10mr3314463wxs.1184347004348; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.46.2 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:16:43 +0100 From: "james riley" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: double letters In-Reply-To: <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_22577_11021883.1184347003923" References: <1184342931.4697a393aed1a@ssl0.ovh.net> <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: 3 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5200 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jimr1603@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_22577_11021883.1184347003923 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Apart from the attitudinals .uu and .ii and I've seen yyyy to signify a longer pause for time. mu'o mi'e cmacis On 13/07/07, 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. > > -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/ > > > > ------=_Part_22577_11021883.1184347003923 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Apart from the attitudinals .uu and .ii and I've seen yyyy to signify a longer pause for time.

mu'o mi'e cmacis

On 13/07/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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.

-Robin


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