From phma@oltronics.net Wed Jan 31 15:15:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 31 Jan 2001 23:15:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 18539 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2001 23:06:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jan 2001 23:06:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.35) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2001 23:06:39 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0DFDA3C57C; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:05:59 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Consonant cluster clarification Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:59:09 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0101311805580J.07119@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Chapter 3 says: In Lojban, doubled consonants are excluded altogether, and clusters are limited to two or three members, except in Lojbanized names. It appears to me that all stage 3 fu'ivla formed from a CVCCV gismu violate this rule, for instance "jinmrtitani" has the four-consonant cluster "nmrt" in it. So is the rule actually that consonant clusters can have up to three consonants in a row between syllabic consonants? phma