WikiDiscuss

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:

> 1. .y. is ignored as whitespace everywhere except before a "bu".

Absolutely support.

> 2. .y. is ignored absolutely everywhere; if we're going to do that we might
> as well drop the one other word in the language (.y'y.) that begins or ends
> with .y. as well for morphological simplicity.

I almost entirely support this. My only misgiving is that it does invalidate
usage (specifically, any usage of .y.bu anywhere would now mean something
completely different). I also wonder whether removing .y'y. would be
worthwhile--as mentioned, it's far from the only word ending with y, and as far
as I know (can someone correct me on this?) y is also valid at the begining of
cmene and type-4 fu'ivla (hmmm, vlatai seems to think it's not valid in
fu'ivla, but is in cmene).

I wonder what the usage of {ybu} vs {y bu} is, and whether we could allow the
former and eliminate the latter? But on the whole, yes, get rid of it
everywhere (and even {.y'y.} if you have to).
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.