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BPFK Section: Hesitation

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:30:54AM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> > .o'anai, turns out y isn't valid *anywhere* in a fu'ivla.
> > (Chapter 4, section 7, number 4 in the first list)
>
> I wouldn't be ashamed of that mistake; I'm quite shocked by this
> rule myself. I wonder where it comes from.

The desire to use y as glue in creating luvjo that contain fu'ivla. That
didn't work, so we tried using iy instead. That didn't work either,
so we finally adopted zei and stopped trying to screw with the morphology.
Conservatism said not to go back and allow y in fu'ivla.

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