From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
To: "lojban" <lojban@onelist.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 23:04:42 -0300
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>


>From: Richard Curnow <richard@curnow.demon.co.uk>
>
>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. 

Example:

"tosmapku" does not fail the test, it cannot break into "to sma-pku"
because "pku" is not a possible rafsi, so it can only be "tos-mapku".

Similarly, "tostostostostosmapku" is also ok, because it cannot
break into "to sto-sto-sto-sto-sma-pku", so you need to check all
the way down.

co'o mi'e xorxes. 


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