Subject: Re: [lojban] Parsing problem with CAI?

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:09:51 -0400 (EDT)

Invent Yourself scripsit:
> blari'ocai
> 
> Does it mean a lujvo containing blanu crino carmi? Or does it mean blari'o
> cai, where "cai" is in selma'o CAI? The grammar says CAI can go anywhere,

If you say blari'Ocai, then it is a lujvo. If you say blarI'ocai, then
it is blar'io cai. That's the point of the penultimate stress rule.

> But unlike UI, CAI doesn't require the stop before it.

UI doesn't inherently require a stop, only the ones that actually begin
with a vowel, and the same is true for A or I or Stage 4 fu'ivla or cmene that
begin with a vowel.

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