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[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters



Selon Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:

> 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.

Not quite true. I've found two words: {uu} and {uunai}.
Maybe double u is an exception?