Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LPe3e-0001RP-F3 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:54 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.248]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LPe3Y-0001R4-Ae for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:54 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so4003665rvf.46 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bQ30akhm6/LQP6kcbEN1cXNMXvHVJgA3Yac8J8GfvAA=; b=UQlSgD4pzJr2mYZsS0naR0xW9xx+dj0iUtIJVfieZS8f1mk3rFpIdoaILOYVyMoFBA QPp25PMrNSvv6ZJhQ9w9ou7BSrrOU5o2i02vYneo76MCg0GksZN0qeqn6VM+vuVVPXrP uFunbZsW1qcS8UFWGWDFAbY//wJbv//H/8lhg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=srGUUY5/dFLHOtH8GGPTFxQf15MX17XHRxNqiLT/Rhv4zsfhkv491qUlhM7u7+zFo+ jdx8eclYFR/ASDUptXLgHNr07dMTeefdTVdvkfATBaU3ukdMM8Z6l4QVmC6VRuwQdcwf CrBIiILt/W/z0WjcucBgMeXYxnB7AG26WWjI0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.163.12 with SMTP id l12mr3923535rve.178.1232548067383; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <96f789a60901210524j6f56059ex143ac9f28401a80e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090113001704.GA13721@sdf.lonestar.org> <96f789a60901161156n3a6c44a7uab29eb6340a55f4e@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560901161253j4cef5b0fp115cb914307d0b64@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60901190859v469fa043ic9f1b122182a9c3f@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560901190935xb23ae7cu46931f6bac6df90@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60901210524j6f56059ex143ac9f28401a80e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:27:47 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560901210627w7c6ddbb4g6c775f1ca4055a5b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1265 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 568 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote: > > I'm sorry. You misunderstood me. I'm not asking why the character known > as y'y isn't allowed at the beginning of a word. I'm asking why the literal > string "y'y" isn't liked by jbofi'e (e.g y'ybutymylyl) ua je'e In that case, I don't know. The PEG morphology should allow it. It may be a bug in jbofi'e, or it may be a rule introduced on purpose. I can think of arguments for doing that. Words that begin with ".y" are certainly very special cases. mu'o mi'e xorxes