From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Tue Jun 05 15:30:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 22:30:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 20279 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 22:26:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 22:26:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 22:26:25 -0000 Received: from du-009-0049.freeuk.com ([212.126.152.49] helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 157PHL-0001u8-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:26:24 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 157Nkd-00004I-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:48:31 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:48:31 +0100 To: Lojban List Subject: More lexing curiosities - la'i within cmene? Message-ID: <20010605214831.A262@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: Lojban List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp From: Richard Curnow X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7553 The reference grammar makes specific mention of "la", "lai" and "doi" not being allowed within cmene if preceded by a vowel. Why does the same rule not apply to la'i? For example, considering the following word bala'ispat. doesn't it break up into ba la'i spat. ? co'o mi'e ritcrd. -- Richard P. Curnow, Weston-super-Mare, UK http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ email:richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com email:rpc@myself.com