[lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   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)

ua je'e

In that case, I don't know. The PEG morphology should allow it. It may
be a bug in jbofi'e, or it may be a rule introduced on purpose. I can
think of arguments for doing that. Words that begin with ".y" are
certainly very special cases.

mu'o mi'e xorxes