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> > {skalduny-} fails slinku'i: {le skaldunyna'a} = les-kal-dun-na'a,
> > so it cannot be used as a rafsi for {skalduna}.
>
> But what about {sicyskaldunybau}?

Currently, if it fails slinku'i (or "slinkujy" as I called it at some
point) it cannot be used anywhere, although you are right it would
not cause problems there.

> How would you lex this?:
> /lobabariyXANtyzmababariyGARnygrilexotciMINiytca/

Hmm... as a single brivla.

More problematic would have been if you had thrown in a {la} in there.

Of course, {lobabariyXANtyzmababariyGARnygrilexotciMIN.} is a valid
cmene, so there's not much we can do about it. You still need a pause
at the beginning of a cmene to separate it from other words, even when
it is in rafsi form.

I think one can come up with strange results using the doi-la-lai-la'i
rule though.

> > In this case, {lekybumoi} is either a non-lojban word or
> > it is {le ky bu moi}, depending on whether we require officially
> > that every Cy cmavo must always be followed by a pause or only
> > when necessary. I prefer the latter, and that's what PEG does now,
> > but it could be done the other way too.
>
> What is necessary depends on the method -

I meant necessary for unambiguity.

>valfendi requires a pause between
> Cy
> and the following word that has CVV, CV'V, or CCV in it, unless that word is
> a cmegadri followed by a cmevla or a cmevla preceded by a cmegadri, in which
> case the cmegadri is broken off on both sides.

But those are not all the cases that don't cause problems, so it's
a relatively more arbitrary choice.

> Me, if the Cy is followed by
> {bu}, I put the pause after {bu}.

That's a good style rule. But what should the official rule be?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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