Re: [bpfk] camxes and syllabification in zi'evla

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambías scripsit:

> That was the idea, yes. In fact only Cyr and Cyn. The -l- hyphen would now
> never be needed, since the final consonant of the rafsi becomes irrelevant
> for the choice of hyphen and so -yr- works for all cases except when the
> fu'ivla proper begins with r.

I was actually thinking of something more radical:  replace all syllabic
consonants with yC throughout the language.  Ivan Derzhanski argued for
this long ago, and I now think he was correct: they reduce readability
and make things more awkward.  Syllabic consonants were introduced by
JCB, and I think we should have discarded them for Lojban; Loglan wound
up being more dependent on them, and writing them double.

> Type-3 fu'ivla become thus something like pseudo-lujvo, which is what they
> are anyway.

Indeed.

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