On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:40:33PM -0800, la gleki wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 10:22:54 PM UTC+4, tsani wrote:
> xorxe's solution: {lu ko klama mi sei la alis cu cusku se'u i mi djica lo
> nu catlu do li'u} (25 syllables)
The {se'u} is expendable, isn't it? So there is a difference in syllables then.
Indeed, the se'u is extraneous here; so it the {cu}, due to the nature of cmevla as not being able to form tanru (with {cusku} in this case.)
.i mi'e la tsani mu'o
> gleki's second solution: {lu ko klama mi li'u se cusku la alis fa lu mi
> djica lo nu catlu do li'u} (25 syllables, splitting sumti implies {ju'e})
>
> ?
>
> If so there are no extra syllables compared to the previous solution.