Re: [lojban-beginners] xu zoi ly saiaspa ly cu fu'ivla

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Stephen Pollei
<stephen.pollei@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I
> wonder how much of the decision of where camxes breaks things is
> driven by the grammar ?

By the syntax? Nothing at all.

> does jaiaspa act different than saiaspa ,
> caiaspa , daiaspa, faiaspa, etc etc.

Yes.

> Also seems that what experimental
> cmavo the parser does or doesn't know could effect results in a few
> circumstances.

No, never. The morphology only cares about word forms, never about
their meaning or their syntax.

> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Morphology%3A+Rules+of+formation
> [[ Any speech generated following these rules will be uniquely
> decomposable by the PEG morphology algorithm.  ....You must pause in
> the following cases: ... Before any word that starts with a vowel or
> diphthong or y. ]]
>
> It does warn you that you might need to pause before such vowel leading fu'ivla.

Semivowels i and u are not considered vowels by the morphology. The
diphthongs are ai, au, ei, and oi.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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