Re: [lojban] Consonant Clusters?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

The phonotactic rules in CLL are neither completely consistent nor completely 
clear. xorxes and I, who have both done significant work on the problem, 
disagree in various details.

For the start of a fu'ivla, I accept any cluster such that all pairs are 
initially permissible, including arbitrarily long sequences of "st". xorxes 
has a list of three letter sequences. I don't remember them all, but I 
know "jgl" is one (jglandi=walnut).

Within a fu'ivla, xorxes accepts anything that can be broken into syllables, 
whatever he allows for syllables, and doesn't contain forbidden substrings 
such as "mz" or "ntc". He accepts "fasxolarto" but not "fasxolarkto". This 
puts him at odds with nitcion, who prefers "fasxolarkto", as it's obvious to 
him from that spelling that it's a mammal (koala to be precise), not a baked 
good. I originally wrote "fasxolarto", thinking that "rkt" cannot occur in a 
fu'ivla.

I accept cmevla like "mkparks", where all consonant pairs are valid but not 
initially valid, but I don't think I've figured out how long they can get. 
I'm not sure what xorxes accepts.

Pierre

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La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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