[lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jorge LlambÃas <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  "h" is y'ybu, not xy (although online jbofi'e doesn't like y'y in the
> begining of a cmevla.  can anyone tell me why??)

The apostrophe is only used to separate two vowels, so it is allowed
neither at the beginning nor at the end of a word, nor next to a
consonant. I'm not sure there is a why other than that's how it was
defined. (That's by the way why the corresponding lerfu is y'y and not
just 'y.)

 

  I'm sorry.  You misunderstood me.  I'm not asking why the character known as y'y isn't allowed at the beginning of a word.  I'm asking why the literal string "y'y" isn't liked by jbofi'e  (e.g y'ybutymylyl)

              --gejyspa