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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:12 -0300
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output
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On 6/22/09, Johan Pretorius <pretoriusjf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How is it decided which sumti goes in which position?  Is this something
> that is consciously (arbitrarily) chosen when the lujvo is taken into the
> dictionary, or are there rules governing it?

There are some guidelines, but not really strict rules.

> Also, if I come across a lujvo that I do not know, how can I be sure where
> one rafsi ends and another begins, apart from knowing the full list of all
> rafsi on the tips of my fingers (surely there are multiple thousands...)?

By construction, there is only one way that a lujvo can be split into
rafsi. You can always know which rafsi a lujvo consists of, even if
you don't recognize any of the rafsi. All you need to know is that
rafsi are of one of these forms: CCV, CVC(y), CVV(r), CCVCy, CVCCy,
CCVCV, CVCCV. The last two can only appear at the end of the lujvo,
and the last rafsi of the lujvo must end in a V.

mu'o mi'e xorxes