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> > That's what I thought I remembered. The rule makes some sense for
> > the n/r-hyphens, but I don't see the point of it for the y-hyphen.
>
> Optional rules always complicate things for the user.

Not always. My impression is that simple algorithms
in general produce easier to learn rules. The algorithm
to forbid some y-hyphens would be rather complicated.
A user should have no trouble in understanding what
{selyma'o} means, and there is no need for them to
ever produce that form. It's more complicated to learn
to recognize {selyma'o} as an error.

> > One other thing that bothers me in the official definition is
> > the restriction for ntc/nts/ndj/ndz in lujvo but not in cmene or
> > fuhivla.
>
> If that's so, it's an error in description; the ban on these should be
> language-wide, like the ban on "bb" or "pg", and for the same reason:
> they threaten audio-visual isomorphism. (Which is not to say that
> speakers of some languages can't make clear distinctions in all these
> cases.)

I probably misinterpreted this:

"Lojbanized names can begin or end with any permissible consonant
pair, not just the 48 initial consonant pairs listed above, and
can have consonant triples in any location, as long as the pairs
making up those triples are permissible."

That would mean the name {santcos} I used in the Quixote translation
ages ago is wrong.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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