Re: [lojban] Nasal assimilation

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Well, Sanskrit is, if not an invented language, at least an artificial one as it has come down to us.  Panini's grammar is more prescriptive than descriptive, at least as it came to be used. As for assimilation, the rules in Panini prescribe what assimilation takes place (all the obvious ones and some rather surprising ones), so that any deviation from this is just bad Sanskrit (Nehru, I think it was, was looked down on by many Brahmins because his Sanskrit had an Uttar Pradeshi accent).  I'm not sure that accidental assimilations in Lojban would be so terrible, but they might in some cases ruin the isomorphism -- better to insert a y or whatever than that.

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From: Sid <cntrational@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Nasal assimilation

Um. 1. Sanskrit was not invented, at least in the way Lojban is. 2.
The habit of Sanskrit speakers of writing assimilations down doesn't
have much to do with this.

mi'e cntr

On 11 March 2012 18:03, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps, you touched someting.
>
> Another well-known invented language is sanskrit, and it was designed
> so as to render this kind of "phonetic accident" impossible.
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