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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:34:48 -0300
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
Subject: Re: pervasive 'y's...
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la trevyr cusku di'e

>  I really hate those y's everywhere in the lujvo... Since lojban's
>baselined now, i guess i can say that I never intend to use them at all. :)
>I think more people will eventually come around to this too, since speaking
>lojban sounds much more natural without them.  And, it will still be easy
to
>parse correctly, but will require some changes to the parser......  oh
well.
>;)

Actually, I think y's could be dropped as separators of nonpermissible
consonant clusters. We could write things like {lobpli} or {lobbau}
without ambiguity, but in four letter rafsi they are sometimes
unavoidable. Otherwise, we could not distinguish, for example
between the two component {xrisylojbo} and the three component
{xrislojbo}.

co'o mi'e xorxes