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Re: [bpfk] Officially updating "Complete Lojban Language" grammar book. An official LLG proposal passed. Your help needed.

On 8/7/2019 6:31 PM, Jorge Llambías wrote:


    It is suggested to replace:
        It is illegal to add a hyphen at a place that is not required by
    this
        algorithm.
    with:
        It is possible to optionally add an y-hyphen between the
    consonants of any
        permissible consonant pair e.g. for stylistic purposes or for
    the ease of
        pronunciation.
I don't have the full context, but I assume the "y" would be permitted betwen the consonants of adjacent rafsi, and not between the consonants of any consonant pair at all, otherwise the morphology gets broken ("to smabru" cannot be pronounced "to symabru" for example).
My opinion, for what it is worth (I don't have a veto), is that if this is an actual change to the morphology as it was defined fora couple of decades, then the fact that Jorge has to raise such questions means that the proposal was not specified completely enough to be properly debated, much less decided.
Especially knowing that Jorge could read any recorded discussion/proposal in Lojban, unlike many of the rest of us (including Nora who did much of the later work and explication of morphology issues).
I also don't recall any mention of this as a proposal approved by byfy, and reported to the members or the Board by the byfy jatna
This proposal should not be incorporated into CLL without a proper documentation, discussion and decision. There is no evidence that such has taken place. 

lojbab

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