On 11/14/06, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
We tried the "something that occurs nowhere else" trick for fu'ivla compounding, using ",iy," as the hyphen. I think someone eventually came up with a "somewhere else" and it was aesthetically displeasing to people as well.
The (unofficial) solution implemented by camxes for fu'ivla compounding is:
(1) add {'y} to a fu'ivla to make a non-final rafsi (the fu'ivla by itself works
as a final rafsi).
(2) any rafsi attached to the front of a fu'ivla rafsi must end in {y}
(i.e. it must be a 4-letter rafsi or a CVC rafsi or another fu'ivla rafsi)
(3) if the fu'ivla starts with a glottal stop, change it to {'} when used
non-initially.
Example:
{barda zei .iglu zei prenu} = {bardy'iglu'ypre}
mu'o mi'e xorxes