[lojban-beginners] Re: fu'ivla formation --- is this right?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la filip cusku di'e

> (What is the rule for safe three-letter rafsi? Do they have to be CVC? 

Yes.

> For example, my copy of vlatai calls {djarspageti} a type-4 fu'ivla 
> rather than parsing it as dja/r/spageti = type-3.)

That's right. {djarpitsa} for example is not a valid fu'ivla,
because it fails the slinku'i test: {le djarpitsa} -> led-jar-pitsa.
{djarspageti} happens to be a valid fu'ivla, but it does not
follow type-4 rules. The final consonant of the rafsi is required
to provide a crunchy "CrC", which can never appear in a lujvo.

Using three letter CVC rafsi can create ambiguity.
A type-3 fu'ivla of the form CVCrnC... for example could be
understood as coming from CVC-r-nC... or from CVCr-n-C...
Similarly for CVCnrC... forms.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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