From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Thu Jan 02 18:56:30 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18UHyv-0000RC-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:54:45 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 71B6B2A9E; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:54:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Can a fu'ivla begin with five or more consonants? Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:54:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301022154.16085.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 3692 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:18, Craig wrote: > >The Book states that a brivla cannot begin with more than two consonants > > or have a cluster of more than three consonants. The latter does not > > apply to fu'ivla, so I am wondering about the former as well. It is > > possible to make arbitrarily long strings of consonants consisting > > entirely of initial pairs by repeating "stct" or "zdjd". It is also > > possible to make a string of five consonants all of whose pairs are > > initial, so I came up with a pair of strings. Is {stcmlatu} a word, or is > > {lestcmlatu} a word? > > and, of course, can we say things like "doi .tctctctctc. mi tstststsa"? .o'i le krotalu cu batci! mu'omi'e pier.