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[lojban-beginners] Re: anti-Zipfian gismu rant
>===== Original Message From "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com> =====
>On 8/9/07, turnip <turnip@bcpl.net> wrote:
>
>> >{natmritaliano} is not type-3. Type-3 would be {natmrxitaliano}.
>>
>> Please explain why?
>
>All type-3 are of one of these forms:
>
> CVCC-r-C...
> CCVC-r-C...
> CVC-r-C...
>
>(where -r- becomes -n- if one of the adjacents C is an r,
>or -l- if one is an r and the other an n.)
>
>{natmritaliano} still happens to be of fu'ivla form, but it's an ordinary
>type-4, not a type-3. The reason is that CVCC-r-V... is not guaranteed
>to be a fu'ivla. For example, natmriblanu, from a hypothetical nationality
>"iblanu", is a lujvo nat-mri-blanu.
>
>So when the borrowed word to be type-3-fu'ivlaized starts with a vowel,
>an x is preappended in order to make it start with a consonant.
Ah, you are right. I've never noticed "step 4" before. I thought the fact
that there was a non-lojbanic medial VV (ia) cluster in there would be enough.
ki'e,
--gy