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RE: [lojban] Now I herd everything!
At 10:20 PM 07/05/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>>na'i .i zo teprespa lujvo zoigy. dinosaur .gy lu terpa respa li'u
>
>i zo tepyrespa lujvo
>i lu teprespa li'u du lu te prespa li'u
How can I tell from the consonants when a lujvo of the form CVCCVCCV needs to
be hyphenated? The example in Chapter 4 is "mudsiclu", in which "ds' is an
impermissible cluster, but "pr" is permissible.
Of course you need a hyphen when the cluster is impermissible. In
addition, there is a special test called the "tosmabru" test that can
require a hyphen on the FIRST cluster if it is a permissible initial. This
is step 5 of the lujvo making algorithm on page 71 of the Book. You are
putting in the hyphen to prevent the front CV from falling off:
CV+CCVCCV being the pattern in 95%+ of the problems. By adding the y, that
dropoff cannot happen.
lojbab
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