From phma@webjockey.net Wed Nov 05 18:10:44 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 29372 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 02:10:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Nov 2003 02:10:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 02:10:42 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 04CC14DFB; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Posterity Badness. Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:10:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311052110.41646.phma@webjockey.net> From: Pierre Abbat X-Originating-IP: 208.150.110.21 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21061 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}. phma -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.