Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> There are.  From the old morphology paper:
[...]
> >It is permissible to vary from these rules in Lojbanized names.  For 
> >example, there are no definitive rules for syllabication of such cmene 
> >with consonant clusters longer than three, such as the English name 
> >armstrong, which we will analyze below.  The close-comma is used to 
> >indicate variant syllabication both orthography.

That is probably what I remembered. Then for the case we were 
discussing, irregularly stressed syllables in cmene, there are
no strict rules. 

> >Is there any way to represent a triphthong, or is {uau} necessarily
> >two syllables, either /ua,u/ or /u,au/?
> 
> In Lojban, vowel groups pair from the left if possible, unless there is a 
> close-comma.  So "uau" is "ua,u".  However, I believe that later decision 
> when we tried to write the morphology algorithm said that use of 
> close-commas do not create a minimal pair, so "ua,u" and "u,au" are the 
> same word.

So pronouncing {uau} as a single syllable is in theory not
allowed, right?

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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