From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Fri Jan 24 17:05:58 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 25 Jan 2003 01:05:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 81934 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 01:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jan 2003 01:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lmsmtp04.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.114) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 01:05:57 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-70-72.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.70.72]) by lmsmtp04.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2C347E90 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:05:56 +0100 (MET) To: "Lojban List" Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: valfendi algorithm Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 01:05:53 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200301241633.04334.phma@webjockey.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin 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.