[lojban-beginners] Re: Asking specific questions

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 02 pi'e 03 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> ..... what happened to rigid rules of morphology so that you always know
> when you're dealing with a brivla vs a cmavo cluster vs. a cmevla vs.
> etc...?
> 
> Is there no hope of fixing these exceptions?  It rubs me the wrong way that
> the logical language would have exceptions.
.skamyxatra

I'm not entirely sure what "exceptions" xorxes was referring to, but I can't
think of any that actually break any prior rules.  All of the {fu'ivla} listed
on jbovlaste have a consonant pair in the first five letters, with the possible
exceptions of a few words that break the rule if & only if you count
apostrophes & leading periods as letters (which you're not supposed to do for
the purposes of the rule).  As for sequences with CCs in the first five letters
that aren't {brivla}, just look at {cmene}.  I honestly have no idea what
xorxes had in mind, but the only non-erroneous interpretation of his e-mail
that makes any sense to me is that you shouldn't just blindly put all of your
trust in the five-letter rule.  If there actually are any Lojban utterances
that subvert the whole of the {brivla} morphology, I would very much like to
see them.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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