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[lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva



Lojban phonotactics is a little difficult...

2009/1/21 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
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