Re: [bpfk] extended rafsi and a tosmabru/slinku'i boondoggle

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

Jorge Llambías scripsit:

> The rule for fu'ivla rafsi is also simple in principle: drop the final
> vowel and replace it with y (just as with gismu), 

Such fu'ivla rafsi are irredeemably ambiguous anyway, since there is no
constraint against having two fu'ivla that differ only in the final vowel.
Speakers of Indo-European languages are used to the final vowel of a word
not being essential to its identity, but this will not work for, say, Chinese.

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