Re: [lojban] le vlatai be lo cmene

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I'm reading the Lessons and I saw a name {antonis.routc.}. This looks odd to 
> me, as {ou} is not a valid diphthong. vlatai calls {routc} valid, but since 
> {ou} is not a Lojban diphthong, it must be implicitly inserting a comma.


No two words differ solely because of the presence or absence of commas,
so "routc" and "ro,utc" are the same word.


> I then tried {ryytc}, {raatc}, {ryitc}, and {riytc}. {ryytc} is rejected as 
> "Bad cmene - doesn't break up", but {ry,ytc} is accepted. {ryitc} is rejected 
> with or without the comma. What is going on?


Those look like bugs.

> vlatai also accepts both {auskalerik} and {euskalerik}. The latter is closer 
> to the native pronunciation AFAIK, but I picked the former because {eu} is 
> not a Lojban diphthong. vlatai also accepts {ckankeu} which is clearly wrong.

No, it is synonymous with ckanke,u, which can be (but need not be)
pronounced ckanke'u.

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