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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: mimiklama
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:04, John Cowan wrote:
> This handles canonically written Lojban, except that "byfy" will be
> misparsed as BRIVLA.  (The rules for when "." may be omitted after BY
> are a wart anyhow.)

Version 5 of the morphology algorithm (which is in the valfendi package) has a 
separate rule for words ending in 'y':

  B.  If the piece ends in 'y':
    I.  Search backward for a consonant.
    II. If you find one:
      a.  If it is preceded by a consonant, resolve the piece as an error.
      b.  If it is not preceded by a consonant, break before the consonant
          and resolve the second piece as a cmavo.
    III.If you do not find one, resolve the piece as a cmavo.

The rule for pauses after BY can be loosened to "A pause is required between a 
word ending in 'y' and a following word containing CCV or CVV." This allows 
{kybu.moi} instead of {ky.bumoi}. Also, since stressed 'Y' never occurs in a 
brivla, the pause can be omitted between stressed BY and a following brivla; 
e.g. {ledYcIlta} means "D's thread" whereas {ledycIlta} means "is a hypha".

Both version 4 and version 5 lex {kyladjan} as {ky la djan} even though it has 
no pauses.

phma
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.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.