Subject: RE: [lojban] Now I herd everything!

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:49:01 -0400

At 10:20 PM 07/05/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >>na'i .i zo teprespa lujvo zoigy. dinosaur .gy lu terpa respa li'u
> >
> >i zo tepyrespa lujvo
> >i lu teprespa li'u du lu te prespa li'u
>
>How can I tell from the consonants when a lujvo of the form CVCCVCCV needs to
>be hyphenated? The example in Chapter 4 is "mudsiclu", in which "ds' is an
>impermissible cluster, but "pr" is permissible.

Of course you need a hyphen when the cluster is impermissible. In 
addition, there is a special test called the "tosmabru" test that can 
require a hyphen on the FIRST cluster if it is a permissible initial. This 
is step 5 of the lujvo making algorithm on page 71 of the Book. You are 
putting in the hyphen to prevent the front CV from falling off:
CV+CCVCCV being the pattern in 95%+ of the problems. By adding the y, that 
dropoff cannot happen.

lojbab
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