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Re: [lojban] optional punctuation



And Rosta wrote:

On a related point, was there a clear rationale concerning the
prohibition of impermissible 'clusters' in cmene? Given that on
a pure phonological level Lojban is underlyingly pure CV with
no clusters, and phonetically realizable as such, pronounceability
cannot have been the rationale.


The rationale throughout for impermissible clusters is confusability,

not pronounceability as such.

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