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Question about lujvo-making
I'm having trouble making sense of rule 5 in the lujvo-making
algorithm in
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter4.html#s11
It says to test all forms with the pattern "CVC ... CVC + X". To be
perfectly clear does this mean that all the rafsi in the "..."
portion must be CVC forms?
The second part says that: 'X must either be a CVCCV long rafsi that
happens to have a permissible initial pair as the consonant cluster,
or is something which has caused a "y"-hyphen to be installed between
the previous CVC and itself by one of the above rules'. If X is not
one of those does that mean the test terminates with no changes
needed?
The 5c says: 'Install a "y"-hyphen at the first such joint'. Is that
the the first from right-to-left or left-to-right? If it is the
right-to-left then what is done if the first such joint is between
the X portion and it's immediately preceding CVC and a "y"-hyphen is
already at that joint?
mu'o mi'e. rork.