Re: [lojban-beginners] What actually are the rules of word formation?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Sunday, April 19, 2015 07:18:06 TR NS wrote:
> When I first learned about loglan/lojban I thought all words were of the
> form `CVCCV` or `CCVCV`, and compound words (lujvo) were always
> `(CVC|CCV)...CV`. I knew names had more flexibility. Later I learned that
> borrowed words did too. Even later I learned that compound words too had
> more flexible rules, e.g. hypen letters. And finally in the end, starring
> me in the face, it dawned on me that even simple words like `brivla` did
> not fit the original formations.
> 
> After reading a fair bit, I find myself more confused than ever. Are there
> any single set of definitive rules defining what and what isn't a legal
> lojban word?

I started learning Lojban after the rafsi reallocation. Any lujvo that was 
valid when I started is still valid, including "brivla". The changes (there 
was one a few months ago, stating that a syllable cannot contain CGV, where C 
is a consonant, G is a glide, and V is a vowel) affect only fu'ivla.

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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