Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: valfendi algorithm

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 01:05:53 -0000

Pierre:
> On Friday 24 January 2003 15:47, And Rosta wrote:
> > I don't see that as a pronounceability issue, though. It's more like
> > English restrictions against CrVr & VVN (N = ng, VV = double vowel)
> > -- they're pronounceable but still prohibited 
> 
> Can a boing be prerecorded in a television show?

onomatopoeic words are allowed to violate phonotactic restrictions so
long as they are pronounceable. In English, that is. Not in Standard
Lojban, though since the Lojban restrictions on consonant cooccurrence
are ill-motivated, I don't see why they need apply to other dialects.

--And.