From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu May 13 16:11:20 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 May 2004 16:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BOPM9-00009g-GA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 16:11:13 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:11:13 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? Message-ID: <20040513231113.GJ4461@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20040513184211.00ab0a00@pop.east.cox.net> <20040513183600.GJ4461@digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20040513184211.00ab0a00@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20040513190312.00ab4e10@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20040513190312.00ab4e10@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7820 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:05:26PM -0400, Nora LeChevalier wrote: > At 03:51 PM 5/13/04 -0700, Robin wrote: > >I'm inclined to agree, but his point (at least currently; it's > >evolved over the last few hours) is that "ybu" would be a *single* > >word. > > But that "single" word invalidates all the documentation on cmavo word > forms. Cmavo currently can only be either a series of vowels or a > single consonant followed by a series of vowels (where "series of > vowels" is a little up in the air as to what's acceptable). Point. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi