[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters

[Nathaniel Krause <nathanielkrause@yahoo.com>]

{stagrleoxari} and {spatrleoxari} ... {koendu}

The "oe" seems likely to be confused with "oue". While it's non-obvious that the latter is legal, it seems the more plausible of the two.

As for {ctiipyrias}, I don't see anything illegal about it, but ... there seems to be an urge among Lojbanists to push the limits of the language's phonotactics. Why? Let's all go easy on our future fellow pronouncers, please.

mu'o mi'e .sen.

Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>  On Friday 13 July 2007 14:29, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> > {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.
>
> I've seen the word for Albania spelled {ctiipyrias} or something like that.
>
> > 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.
>
> I consider all such pairs to be valid, and have coined a few words with them, 
> such as {stagrleoxari} and {spatrleoxari} "water chestnut" and 
> {koendu} "coendou" (a kind of porcupine).
>
> phma

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