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Gleki Arxokuna scripsit:

> Why {mastra} is a fine brivla but {mastla} should not be (morphological
> classes apart)?

Well, "tl" is not a valid syllable onset, and planet-wide, languages prefer
simpler codas than onsets.  (I say "planet-wide" because Klingon is an
exception.)

Now there is nothing difficult about "mast-la", but our parsers are set up
to accept two consonants in the coda only if they have to.  I think that's
an unnecessary limitation, as if "mast-la" were simpler than "mast-xla".

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