From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Mon Feb 24 11:09:51 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 24 Feb 92 11:09 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA07194; Mon, 24 Feb 92 11:02:11 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA07713; Mon, 24 Feb 92 10:54:47 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA12514; Mon, 24 Feb 92 10:54:55 EST Message-Id: <9202241554.AA12514@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 8364; Mon, 24 Feb 92 10:52:37 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 7554; Mon, 24 Feb 92 10:50:58 EST Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 10:50:33 EST Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: wallops X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: frank%PYR.COMM@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Sun, 23 Feb 1992 18:50:22 PST Status: RO Frank asks if any sequence of cmavo can be compounded without spaces between. The answer is yes. Provided it's *only* cmavo and noting else, and also provided that vowel-initial cmavo are marked with close-periods (or come at the beginning of a compound) and that "y"-final cmavo (like {ty}) have close-periods after (or come only at the end). Given those constraints, since all cmavo have at most one consonant and it comes at the beginning, you can always place word-breaks before each consonant and uniquely crack any cmavo-compound into its components. Stylistically, some compounds are more common than others (e.g. {lenu} or {la'edi'u}), but you can get away with any compound. ~mark