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[lojban-beginners] Re: lujvo into fu'ivla



2009/4/10 Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>:
> de'i li 10 pi'e 04 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tijlan .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
>> A lujvo for "motorcycle" would most likely be
>>
>>  matryrelxilma'e
>>
>> But it sometimes sounds too long for me to use around. So, as an
>> experiment, I created a fu'ivla out of it:
>>
>>  trxlma'e
> ...
>> What do you think about it?
> .skamyxatra
>
> It's invalid.  As stated in section 4.7 of the CLL, the first rule of {fu'ivla}
> requires that, if the consonant cluster is at the beginning of the word,
> _every_ pair of adjacent consonants must be a valid initial consonant pair,
> which "rx" and "lm" are not.
>
> mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

On the "Exhaustive list of short fu'ivla forms" page, it says "in all
cases where CC is allowed non-initially, C/C is also allowed", and it
lists this example:

 CCCCCVV (stsmla'u)

So I thought "CC/C/C/CVV" was possible.

mu'o mi'e tijlan