[lojban] cmegadri valfendi preti

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

I am calling {doi} a cmegadri for this purpose, even though it's not a gadri.

According to BRKWORDS.TXT:

   1)  Names:
     a)  If the last letter of the piece is a consonant, we have a name.  A
     name must have a pause before it UNLESS it is immediately preceded by
     a /la/, /lai/, /la'i/ or /doi/ as a marker, and it cannot contain any
     of these markers unless the marker is immediately preceded by a conso-
     nant.  So, look backwards from the end of the piece for any of the
     allowed markers.  If we don't find one (e.g. /jonz/), then the whole
     piece has been resolved as a name.
     b)  If you do find such a marker, then check what immediately precedes
     it.  If there is nothing (e.g. /ladjAn/), or if a vowel precedes (e.g.
     /mivIskaladjAn./, break off the marker as a resolved piece (/la/), and
     what follows it is also a resolved piece, a name (/djAn/), leaving us
     with whatever preceded the marker, if anything, as still unresolved
     (/mivIska/).
     c)  If what precedes the marker is a consonant (e.g. /karoslAInas/)
     then ignore the marker and continue looking backwards.  This exception
     is allowed because /karos/ with no following pause cannot represent a
     separate word.

I am doing two versions of the cmegadri finding routine, the alahum version 
and the standard version. The alahum version requires that the cmegadri be 
followed by a consonant; the standard version doesn't.

Assuming that the standard version follows the instructions above, process 
{doias}. Looking backward, find {doi}. It is preceded by nothing, so break it 
off. The result is two pieces, {doi} and {as}. But that is wrong, since {doi 
as} must have a pause before {as}. The alahum version would not split it 
because {as} does not begin with a consonant.

On {doi'as}, however, the standard version would again break it into {doi} 
and {'as}. {'as} would then be resolved as an error. The alahum version would 
not break it, and {doi'as} would be resolved as a cmene.

So, for the standard version, should I look for a consonant or y'y after the 
cmegadri?

Another question: why is the cmegadri broken off from what precedes it, 
instead of just breaking between the cmene and the cmegadri and leaving the 
cmegadri to be found later? What about {MUstelaVIson} and {muSTElaVIson}? How 
should they be analyzed?

phma

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