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> Valfendi is set up like this:
> In gismu: Only a, e, i, o, u.
> In lujvo: ai, au, ei, oi are the only pairs allowed. y allowed as hyphen.
> In fu'ivla: All pairs (a/e/i/o/u)(a/e/i/o/u) are allowed. If the two vowels
> do
> not form a diphthong, they are assumed to have a comma between them.
> Arbitrarily long vowel strings are allowed.
> In fu'ivla lujvo: All pairs (a/e/i/o/u)(a/e/i/o/u) are allowed. y is allowed
> between consonants and must occur at least once.
> In cmene: All pairs are allowed. iy and uy are diphthongs. If the two vowels
> do not form a diphthong, they are assumed to have a comma between them.

All that makes sense to me: maximally permissive.

> In cmavo: ai, au, ei, oi are allowed in arbitrarily long cmavo.
> (i/u)(a/e/i/o/u) are allowed in two-letter cmavo. No more than two vowels in
> a row are allowed; a cmavo with more than two vowels must contain an
> apostrophe.

This, however, which is maximally restrictive, makes no sense to me
in conjunction with the above rules. If you are maximally permissive
with cmene and fu'ivla I see no reason not to be equally permissive
with cmavo.

I don't have a strong opinion on which way we should go as far as
permissiveness of vowel pairs, but I do think we should be consistent
and not have arbitrary restrictions that apply to one class of words
and not to other, for no aparent reason.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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