Re: [jbovlaste] berbere, berberi

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

selpa'i scripsit:

> The PEG assigns rafsi to all fu'ivla, but even if you don't like the
> PEG morphology, the CLL itself proposes fu'ivla rafsi for fu'ivla of
> the form CCV'VCV:

The reason that was just a proposal is that we could never prove that
decompositions were unambiguous.  Note that a PEG grammar, unlike a YACC
grammar, does not prove this, because PEG grammars silently override
ambiguities using the rule "first = best".  That isn't good enough for
Lojban morphology, so I consider the CLL proposal a dead letter.

> Allowing two fu'ivla to differ only in their final vowel would remove
> the possibility of having fu'ivla rafsi, which is quite a big cost.

Fu'ivla lujvo have their own problems, because you have to make sure
that you can enunciate them as single words with no pauses or additional
stresses.  "Zei" compounds don't have those problems.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
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on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
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