[lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations?

["Chris Howlett" <chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk>]

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> Behalf Of Philip Newton
> Sent: 21 September 2004 08:39
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> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations?
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> 
> 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.

Gotcha. That makes sense, thanks; although it is another "inconsistency"
in the language. Ah well, so long as it's unambiguous I guess it
achieves its aim.

mi'e .kris.