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On Thursday 16 December 2004 19:33, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> Another question:
>
> CLL says:
>
> (1) "It is always legal to use the apostrophe (IPA h) sound in
> pronouncing a comma."
>
> (2) "Commas are never required: no two Lojban words differ solely
> because of the presence or placement of a comma."
>
> (3) "There exist 16 diphthongs in the Lojban language. ... Diphthongs
> always constitute a single syllable."
>
> This seems to lead to contradiction. If {kanku,a} can be
> pronounced like {kanku'a} by (1) and the comma is not required
> by (2) so it is equivalent to {kankua}. How many different
> words are among {kanku'a}, {kanku,a} and {kankua}, and which
> are they?

(1) is a leftover from Loglan, or a confusion because of the Loglan
compatibility orthography, or something like that, and is incorrect.
Diphthongs are pronounced as one syllable, unless there is a comma between
the vowels, but the comma makes no difference to whether it's a valid word,
or which one (the question of which one is moot with cmene, since they can be
polysemous). So {kankua} and {kanku,a} are the same word, though stressed on
different syllables, and {kanku'a} is different. I asked the same question
when I was developing valfendi.

phma
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