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[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters
On Saturday 14 July 2007 10:40, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, the only two issues that have to be settled are
> (1) whether or not to allow any possible string of vowels, and if some
> restriction is imposed, what it will be, and
> (2) what the allowed consonant clusters at the end of a cmevla should
> be. Most cmevla end with a single consonant, but some have been
> coined with consonant clusters at the end, which is not strange given that
> English is a language that is particularly permissive with final consonant
> clusters and most coiners are English speakers.
I haven't heard back from Nora, so I don't know that anything's been settled.
I think that any possible string of vowels should be allowed, and that an
onset can be any string of consonants each pair of which is a valid initial
pair, as long as "ntc" etc. does not appear. I also allow a syllable to end
with two consonants, the first of which is a syllabic consonant. E.g.
{tarksako} "dandelion" is {tark,sa,ko}.
I have some other questions that affect a few possibly valid words, e.g.
{xioskiamo} "henbane", but I don't think that discussion of the details is
appropriate for the beginners' list.
Pierre