On 31 Oct 2011, at 18:18, H. Felton wrote:
Regarding the dot-side issue: was a consensus ever reached on the pro-dot-side whether cmene that contained the sequence "la" not preceded by a consonant, but which were not cmevla needed dot-side "protection"?; eg, "la labno"; "la xrula"; or if "la ka trina" is valid, then a name containing "la'u" should also be valid; finally, tanru, lujvo, and fu'ivla can also contain the sequence "la" not preceded by a consonant. I wouldn't think that these names would need dot-side protection; only those which are cmevla.
Pre-dot side, non-{cmevla} containing "la" were treated exactly the same as other non-{cmevla}, and the dot side doesn't change that. The only changes the dot side makes are (1) {cmevla} may freely contain "la", "lai", "la'i", and "doi" (as long as they still end in a consonant and obey all the other rules of Lojban morphology), and (2) each {cmevla} must be preceded by a pause (and, as before, followed by one), but as periods and spaces are functionally nigh-identical in written text, they are often not represented. As before, you have the option of inserting a pause/period between any two words (but never in the middle of a word!); pauses are only mandatory before & after {cmevla}, before words beginning in a vowel, after words ending in "y" under certain circumstances, and in ZOI quotes.
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