From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Jul 17 10:13:19 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 17:13:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 68674 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 17:11:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 17:11:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 17:11:45 -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 NAA11059; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B5471CE.4070901@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:11:42 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] optional punctuation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan And Rosta wrote: > On a related point, was there a clear rationale concerning the > prohibition of impermissible 'clusters' in cmene? Given that on > a pure phonological level Lojban is underlyingly pure CV with > no clusters, and phonetically realizable as such, pronounceability > cannot have been the rationale. The rationale throughout for impermissible clusters is confusability, not pronounceability as such. -- 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