[lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:

In a message dated 2009-01-21 08:26:34 Eastern Standard Time, mturniansky@gmail.com writes:

I'm asking why the literal string "y'y" isn't liked by jbofi'e  (e.g y'ybutymylyl)

jbofi'e takes "y'y" just fine.  It's beginning the cmevla with "y'y" that seems to be the problem.

mi'e stevon
mu'o

  Which was my original quesiton, repeated both in both xorxes, and my response to him, and reproduced for a fourth time down below:.  Why don't people read?  oicairo'a

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.)