Re: [lojban] lujvo deconstruction

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2010 17:37:26 Luke Bergen wrote:
>
>> Further, what is this about hyphen-letters only being allowed after the
>> first rafsi?  I can understand why the rafsi before an r/n-hyphen would
>> need to be CVV or CV'V, but why can't r/n-hyphen come after the second or
>> third rafsi?
>
> The r-hyphen is there to prevent the part before it from falling off as a
> cmavo. The first and second rafsi together cannot fall off, since they have
> at least two consonants and a cmavo has at most one.

Just to add a little bit of confusion here (this is not
lojban-beginners, so I'm allowed): In the lujvo making algorithm the
CLL indeed does say "It is illegal to add a hyphen at a place that is
not required by this algorithm." However, the PEG grammar disagrees
with that dictum. According to the PEG grammar it is always legal to
add an r/n-hyphen after any CVV or CV'V rafsi, even when not really
required. It is of course only required when the rafsi is the first
rafsi in a lujvo other than CVVCCV or CV'VCCV.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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