[lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations?

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:47:29 +0100, Chris Howlett
<chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I was referring to the
> .-pauses. Why do you need a '.' before the cmene after a COI cmavo, but
> not after la?

The three words "doi", "la", and "lai" can be followed immediately by
a name without a pause. Name words have to have a pause before them if
any other word (including COI cmavo or, say, "zo") comes before.

A result of this is that names may not contain the sequences "doi",
"la", or "lai" (except when they can, but let's ignore this for now) -
this way, you can find out a name by looking for a consonant followed
by pause and going backwards until you hit either one of those three
syllables or another pause.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>