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[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters



On 7/13/07, james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com> wrote:
Apart from the attitudinals .uu and .ii and I've seen yyyy to signify a
longer pause for time.

{uu} and {ii} are the only official words that contain double vowels,
although the first of the pair can really be considered a semi-vowel
or a semi-consonant. Those two pairs would be allowed in cmevla
and fu'ivla too, although I don't remember any actual cases of usage.

The status of aa, ee, and oo is not as yet settled. At least
one proposal would not allow them, together with any other
nucleus-nucleus clash such as ae, ao, ea, eo, oa, oe.

{yyyyy} is a special case, as it is not even clear that it can be
considered a word. If it is a word, however, it's the same word
as {y}, just written funny.

mu'o mi'e xorxes