From hfroark@bigmailbox.net Sat Nov 08 10:17:20 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: hfroark@bigmailbox.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 26388 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2003 18:17:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Nov 2003 18:17:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n8.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.92) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2003 18:17:17 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.187] by n8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2003 18:16:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:16:42 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Posterity Badness. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200311052110.41646.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 952 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "hfroark" X-Originating-IP: 66.218.66.92 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=81005150 X-Yahoo-Profile: hfroark X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21091 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 20:49, hfroark wrote: > > Actually, I think that there is a problem. If I am not missing a > > point, Lojban words inculding type-4 fu'ivla have to begin with a > > consonant or (mandatory) pause. So, "angeli" should be ".angeli", or > > the other changes including "xangeli" would also work. > > Yes, a word beginning with a vowel must be preceded by a pause, but it doesn't > have to be written. It's better to write it, though. > > It is even possible, though hard to read, to omit all spaces in a sequence > consisting of cmavo, all except possibly the first beginning with consonants > and none containing 'y', and possibly one brivla beginning with a consonant > at the end: {ilezdani belebarda angeli cublanu}. I think that a brivla that requires a pause is unusual enough that a pause should be marked. mu'o mi'e. rork.