Re: [lojban] Re: stage-4 fu'ivla construction exception?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:17:21 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>> The way I have proposed to solve this is to add a rule that says that
>> the lojbanized part of the fu'ivla, before adding the classifier, has
>> to consist of valid lojban syllables (i.e., it has to start with a
>> valid initial), so "jikrldjine" can only be analyzed as jikr-l-djine.
>
> The way I think it should be resolved, and the way I think jbofi'e does it, is
> that if a stage-3 fu'ivla can be analyzed into either 3-letter rafsi +
> foreign part or 4-letter rafsi + foreign part, use the 4-letter rafsi.

Fortunately, your rule and my rule always end up with the same result.

> There are some foreign parts which begin
> with invalid initial clusters for which it would be nice to be able to form
> fu'ivla, such as "gbe" ("bangrgbe"), a subfamily of African languages.

camxes won't accept "bangrgbe" because it doesn't consist of lojbanic syllables.

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