[lojban] Re: "la" rule

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 11/14/06, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> We tried the "something that occurs nowhere else" trick for fu'ivla
> compounding, using ",iy," as the hyphen.  I think someone eventually
> came up with a "somewhere else" and it was aesthetically displeasing to
> people as well.

The (unofficial) solution implemented by camxes for fu'ivla compounding is:

(1) add {'y} to a fu'ivla to make a non-final rafsi (the fu'ivla by itself works
as a final rafsi).

(2) any rafsi attached to the front of a fu'ivla rafsi must end in {y}
(i.e. it must be a 4-letter rafsi or a CVC rafsi or another fu'ivla rafsi)

(3) if the fu'ivla starts with a glottal stop, change it to {'} when used
non-initially.

Example:

 {barda zei .iglu zei prenu} = {bardy'iglu'ypre}

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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