Re: [lojban-beginners] 'tesete' and cmavo cluster rules

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 09:41:26 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> As far as omitting denpabu, when in text there is any combination of ' '
> and '.', it is permissible to omit all of '.' and ' ' except one, such as
> {la.djan. .uisai xruti .i mi mutce gleki} could be written as {la djan
> uisai i mi mutce gleki}, {la.djan.uisai xruti.i mi mutce gleki}, etc. I
> typically only omit either when there is a semantic(?) link between them,
> and I always favor '.' over ' ', so my rendering would be {la.djan.uisai
> xruti .i mi mutce gleki}. My reason for choosing to omit ' ' and not '.' is
> because when speaking, those pauses /must/ /still/ /be/ /"said"/, and
> keeping the '.' in the written serves as a reminder of when you /must/
> pause.

If a cmevla is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, I omit one of the 
denpa bu; which one is arbitrary. I omit the space only within a compound 
cmene (e.g. "misisipis.rirx", "kot.divuár") or cmavo cluster (e.g. "na.e", 
"te.u"). So I'd write "la .djan. uisai xruti .i mi mutce gleki".

Btw, it's "denpa bu", not "denpabu", which is a zi'evla. The proper brivla is 
"depybu'i".

Pierre
-- 
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