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The Book states that a brivla cannot begin with more than two consonants or
have a cluster of more than three consonants. The latter does not apply to
fu'ivla, so I am wondering about the former as well. It is possible to make
arbitrarily long strings of consonants consisting entirely of initial pairs
by repeating "stct" or "zdjd". It is also possible to make a string of five
consonants all of whose pairs are initial, so I came up with a pair of
strings. Is {stcmlatu} a word, or is {lestcmlatu} a word?
I have always assumed {stcmlatu} would be the word.
This wiki page:
http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/Positive%20characterization%20of%20fu%27ivla%20space
gives as a condition for fu'ivla that the forms should "have no four
consonants in a row, none of which is syllabic". Does that come
from CLL? That would block things like "stct" and "zdjd", if it is
an actual rule.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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