[lojban-beginners] Re: nice to meet you

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 21/06/07, Jon Top Hat Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

>  interestingly enough, jbofihe couldn't parse the former: it didn't catch
> {nelcitavlado} as {nelci tavla do}, which provides a fairly good reason ton
> keep the spaces (which are completely optional) in written Lojban, other

>  doi xorxes- You say that a space is required after brivla? I was under the

As I understand it, you need either a space after the brivla, or to
indicate stress explicitly.  {nelcitavlado} is otherwise one long
brivla (although I'm not sure it makes any sense interpreted as such;
maybe it could be a Stage 4 fu'ivla?) since the consonant pair {lc}
marks the word as a brivla, and only a space, a pause or an explicit
stress indication can mark the end of the brivla (Chapter 4 Section
3).  The default stress rule would apply and so it would be pronounced
as {nelcitavLAdo}.

To get three words you could write {NElciTAvlado}.  Personally I find
that style extremely hard on the eyes.