X-Digest-Num: 31 Message-ID: <44114.31.110.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: 20 Dec 1998 22:56:38 +0000 From: Richard Curnow Subject: lujvo making and the 'tosmabru failure' test X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 110 Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 32 Hi everyone I am trying to get to the bottom of the lujvo-making algorithm described in chapter 4, section 11 of the reference manual, in particular the test in 5) for 'tosmabru failure'. If the candidate lujvo starts CVC CVC CVC ..., and would break into a cmavo and a shorter brivla, I am struggling to see how it can break other than after the first CV, leaving the shorter brivla being all but the initial 2 letters. In this case, the test would just be whether the 3rd and 4th letters form an initial consonant pair, and would not require checking of other 'joints' as described in the document, or of the form of the trailing 'X' part of the lujvo. (I assume that the lujvo cannot break into 2 shorter brivla or into a brivla with a trailing cmavo, due to stress considerations when it is pronounced.) Any insights would be appreciated - I'm putting together my own bit of software to implement the algorithm to check I understand it correctly. Thanks Richard -- Richard P. Curnow Stevenage, England