Re: Posterity Badness.

["hfroark" <hfroark@bigmailbox.net>]

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@w...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 20:49, hfroark wrote:
> > Actually, I think that there is a problem. If I am not missing a
> > point, Lojban words inculding type-4 fu'ivla have to begin with a
> > consonant or (mandatory) pause. So, "angeli" should be ".angeli", 
or
> > the other changes including "xangeli" would also work.
> 
> Yes, a word beginning with a vowel must be preceded by a pause, but 
it doesn't 
> have to be written. It's better to write it, though.
> 
> It is even possible, though hard to read, to omit all spaces in a 
sequence 
> consisting of cmavo, all except possibly the first beginning with 
consonants 
> and none containing 'y', and possibly one brivla beginning with a 
consonant 
> at the end: {ilezdani belebarda angeli cublanu}.

I think that a brivla that requires a pause is unusual enough that a 
pause should be marked.

mu'o mi'e. rork.