From slobin@ice.ru Mon Oct 30 05:43:47 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: slobin@ice.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 30 Oct 2000 13:43:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 1707 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 13:43:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Oct 2000 13:43:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO feast.ice.ru) (213.128.193.50) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 13:43:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (slobin@localhost) by feast.ice.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id QAA10535 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:43:44 +0300 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:43:44 +0300 (MSK) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Another morphology question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Cyril Slobin On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote: > > Is sequence of vovels that does not form valid diphtong possible? > > In particular, is cmene {rafael} valid or it should be {rafa,el}? > > The comma is always optional: "rafael" and "rafa,el" are the same name, > not two different names. Does that mean that any sequence of vovels is possible in valid lojban text (eg in cmene or experimental cmavo), unlike consonants where a lot of pairs are explicitely forbidden? -- Cyril Slobin