From cowan@ccil.org Wed Jun 06 17:38:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 7 Jun 2001 00:38:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 19797 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 00:38:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2001 00:38:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 00:38:09 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 157noN-0002zU-00; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:38:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] More lexing curiosities - la'i within cmene? In-Reply-To: <20010606232358.B549@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> from Richard Curnow at "Jun 6, 2001 11:23:58 pm" To: Richard Curnow Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Richard Curnow scripsit: > > Names are not permitted to have the sequences ``la'', ``lai'', ``la'i'' or > > ``doi'' embedded in them, unless the sequence is immediately preceded by a > > consonant or followed by a vowel or apostrophe. > > OK, I'm happy with the thread so far. This is pretty much what I > thought the rule would be. That isn't what the rule is: it's a rule for some other parallel universe. > Now for another spanner in the works. What if "la" is preceded by "y"? > e.g. does "cydoispat" break up into "cy doi spat"? I guess the answer > is not, since the latter would strictly be "cy. doi spat.", so there > would be a pause before "doi" to save us. It doesn't break up, but it's still an illegal cmene. Simplicity beats inclusiveness. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter