From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:59:27 2010 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list Date: Mon Oct 07 09:46:37 1996 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: lujvo morphology To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-UIDL: 98d5a72a6cc07617cda3ea7da4d34731 Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1211 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Oct 07 09:46:37 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: <2lAytZxrrc.A.nJC.P70kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Chris Bogart replies: >R.M. Uittenbogaard wrote: >>....In one of the ckafybarja texts found on an ftp site, >> the word "mlitoinandu" appears. I wondered how a Lojban-speaker would know >> that this is intended to be one single lujvo: since the stressed syllable is >> the penultimate one, I would expect this word to fall apart into >> "mlitoi nandu" which is a tanru and so might have a distinct meaning from >> the meaning intended. > >I'm not sure, but I think that was an error -- it should be >"mlitoirnandu". No. An r/n hypen is ONLY inserted after an initial CVV rafsi, and is not permitted anywhere else. (It is also not permitted in a CVVCCV lujvo, the only CVV-initial lujvo that does not fall apart without it.) In short, if the r/n is either required or forbidden - never optional. The same is true of 'y' hyphens. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"