Re: [lojban-beginners] lujvo as prefix for fu'vla?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Monday, April 30, 2012 03:16:25 jongausib wrote:
>>
>> If I would like to specify that the loanword "semla" has something to
>> do with a cake/pastry, not a brown bread, could you construct the
>> fu'ivla "titnanbrsemla"?
>
> No. A type-3 fu'ivla has only one rafsi classifier. I don't know what the
> counterexample is, since not I figured it out, but if you try to use two rafsi
> prefixes in a type-3 fu'ivla, you can run into trouble. "titnanbrsemla" is a
> type-4 fu'ivla.

There are two kinds of trouble you can run into if you want to use
more than one rafsi: (1) sometimes two rafsi need to be separated by
-y-, and fu'ivla can't contain "y", and (2) sometimes you run into a
tosmabru-type failure, for example if you try to use two CVC rafsi and
the C-C between them happens to be a valid initial, then the CV at the
beginning falls off.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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