From phma@oltronics.net Wed Nov 22 13:35:28 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 22 Nov 2000 21:35:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 40861 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2000 21:35:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Nov 2000 21:35:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.51) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Nov 2000 21:35:17 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id BE8B53C640; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:32:35 -0500 (EST) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Minimal pair of lujvo Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:25:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112216323500.00445@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Here is a pair of lujvo that speakers of many languages will confuse: cunpoi random sequence (cunso porsi) cumpoi possible sequence (cumki porsi) Some languages do not have "np" and if a morpheme ending in "n" precedes one beginning with "p" the result is "mp". Similarly "md" becomes "nd". Should "md" and "np" be forbidden consonant clusters which require "y" when forming lujvo? English has such a minimal pair: if someone is in hospital and wants to get out as soon as possible, he is an ... phma