lujvo making and the 'tosmabru failure' test

[Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>]

Hi everyone

I am trying to get to the bottom of the lujvo-making algorithm
described in chapter 4, section 11 of the reference manual, in
particular the test in 5) for 'tosmabru failure'.

If the candidate lujvo starts CVC CVC CVC ..., and would break into a
cmavo and a shorter brivla, I am struggling to see how it can break
other than after the first CV, leaving the shorter brivla being all
but the initial 2 letters.  In this case, the test would just be
whether the 3rd and 4th letters form an initial consonant pair, and
would not require checking of other 'joints' as described in the
document, or of the form of the trailing 'X' part of the lujvo.  (I
assume that the lujvo cannot break into 2 shorter brivla or into a
brivla with a trailing cmavo, due to stress considerations when it is
pronounced.)

Any insights would be appreciated - I'm putting together my own bit of
software to implement the algorithm to check I understand it
correctly.

Thanks
Richard

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Richard P. Curnow
Stevenage, England