Subject: Re: [lojban] optional punctuation

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:11:42 -0400

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.

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