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From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals
   is a *bad* idea.
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At 07:12 AM 5/1/04 -0700, Jorge "Llamb=EDas" wrote:
> > >Is there any way to represent a triphthong, or is {uau} necessarily
> > >two syllables, either /ua,u/ or /u,au/?
> >
> > In Lojban, vowel groups pair from the left if possible, unless there is=
 a
> > close-comma.  So "uau" is "ua,u".  However, I believe that later decisi=
on
> > when we tried to write the morphology algorithm said that use of
> > close-commas do not create a minimal pair, so "ua,u" and "u,au" are the
> > same word.
>
>So pronouncing {uau} as a single syllable is in theory not
>allowed, right?

In theory.


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