From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 13 10:07:08 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9Obk-0004sS-3o for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:07:08 -0700 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I9Obg-0004sD-Qk for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:07:07 -0700 Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu (hive.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.21.14]) by express.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id l6DH6uN4014918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6DH6ufY029620; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l6DH6tUw029617; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:56 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: hive.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: double letters In-Reply-To: <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: References: <1184342931.4697a393aed1a@ssl0.ovh.net> <20070713165913.GO6403@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5197 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners 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 -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Dot : Dough, some cash -- a wad of cash Yakko: Ray, a guy who fixes cars. Wakko: Me, the one who takes out the trash YW+D : Far, the distance to the stars. Yakko: So, a word that goes with "well" Dot : LA, a city where we dwell Wakko: Tea, with honey it tastes swell Y+W : And that brings us back to... Dot : ...Dough!