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[lojban] Re: Can a fu'ivla begin with five or more consonants?
>The Book states that a brivla cannot begin with more than two consonants or
>have a cluster of more than three consonants. The latter does not apply to
>fu'ivla, so I am wondering about the former as well. It is possible to make
>arbitrarily long strings of consonants consisting entirely of initial pairs
>by repeating "stct" or "zdjd". It is also possible to make a string of five
>consonants all of whose pairs are initial, so I came up with a pair of
>strings. Is {stcmlatu} a word, or is {lestcmlatu} a word?
and, of course, can we say things like "doi .tctctctctc. mi tstststsa"?