[lojban-beginners] Re: welcome and question about brivla recognizing

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/21/08, Mateusz Grotek <unoduetre@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Thanks. As I said, i'm new to lojban. I had thought that lojban is something
> polished etc. but now I see it's more like work in progress. Am i correct?

As far as the phonology/morphology goes, there are only
(very) minor details that are not fully specified yet.

> I
> suppose algorithm for recognizing words in lojban should be simple. If it is
> not, why use such fancy features like limitation of allowable consonant
> pair, using consonant pair only in brivla, not in cmavo etc. if it still
> doesn't help in recognizing what is brivla, and what isn't.

It is simpler than for natlangs, being completely unambiguous, but it
is not so simple that it can be explained in two words.

> It would be
> completely equal to learning all rafsi and cmavo from dictionary, if i
> understand what you said.

What you do need to know is the rafsi forms: CCV, CVC(y), CVV(r),
CCVCy, CVCCy, CCVCV, CVCCV, and how to combine them to form
lujvo. But you don't need to identify each actual rafsi in order to recognize
whether a form is a brivla or not.

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