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On Wednesday 22 December 2004 00:24, Clark & Janiece Nelson wrote:
> Hmm. Consider the following passage from CLL (4.3):
>
> All brivla have the following properties:
> 1) always end in a vowel;
> 2) always contain a consonant pair in the first five letters, where "y" and
> apostrophe are not counted as letters for this purpose;
> 3) always are stressed on the next-to-last (penultimate) syllable; this
> implies that they have two or more syllables.
>
> I always assumed this to be definitive, rather than descriptive: that any
> word having all these characteristics is defined as being a brivla; not
> that this happens to be true as a consequence of other rules. I also
> believed that any brivla that didn't match the pattern of a gismu or lujvo
> was defined to be a fu'ivla.
>
> Are these things true or not?

There are three kinds of lerpoi that satisfy those properties but aren't
brivla: tosmabru, slinku'i, and invalid lujvo. A lerpoi beginning with a
consonant cluster and the result of prepending a cmavo to it cannot both be
brivla; either the shorter is a slinku'i, or the longer is a tosmabru (or the
cmavo has more than three letters). (I am using "tosmabru" loosely.) The set
of strings that satisfy those properties and are not tosmabru or slinku'i, I
call greater brivla space. Strings in greater brivla space that aren't brivla
are invalid lujvo. There are two kinds: errors of hyphenation (lekymoi) and
errors of rafsi (lekybumoi).

phma
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