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[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters



On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:08:51PM +0200, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> > I can't think of a Lojban word featuring neither consonant
> > doubling nor vowel doubling. Can you?
> > 
> > Is there an explicit rule about doubling of letters?
> 
> Yes: don't.  Ever.  Even in borrowings.  Of course, you can do
> whatever you want inside la'o/zoi quotes, including bird calls,
> doubled letters, and fart noises.

.ii .uu nai dai
-- 
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

Dot  : Dough, some cash -- a wad of cash
Yakko: Ray, a guy who fixes cars.
Wakko: Me, the one who takes out the trash
YW+D : Far, the distance to the stars.
Yakko: So, a word that goes with "well"
Dot  : LA, a city where we dwell
Wakko: Tea, with honey it tastes swell
Y+W  : And that brings us back to...
Dot  : ...Dough!