From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Jan 31 15:02:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 31 Jan 2001 23:01:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 73255 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2001 22:52:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Jan 2001 22:52:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2001 23:53:13 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18952; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:54:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A7896F6.3080306@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:51:34 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010119 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Curnow Cc: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Maximum allowed consonant cluster length in fu'ivla? References: <20010131222923.B372@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Richard Curnow wrote: > In chapter 3 of the Ref. Grammar, there is a statement > > In Lojban, doubled consonants are excluded altogether, and clusters > are limited to two or three members, except in Lojbanized names. "Members" = "consonants", but excludes syllabic consonants. 3.4 and 3.6 should be corrected to this effect. > cidjrspageti > > which contain clusters of 4 consonants, Actually 5 consonants. But the syllabication is "cidj,r,spageti", so there are never more than two non-syllabic consonants in a row. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein