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Re: [jboske] rafsi fu'ivla



On Saturday 10 May 2003 14:30, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> I can't find any problems with it. Every fu'ivla that starts with
> a consonant and ends in a single vowel and is not "nice" (as defined in
> http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/nice%20fu%27ivla%20forms )
> can get a rafsi.

{mlongena} should be listed as "nice" and cannot have a rafsi. Originally I 
thought it could, but Nora pointed out {remlongenynei}.

> What about allowing rafsi ending in V'y for those forms that end in more
> than one vowel (but not a diphthong)? So for example a fu'ivla like
> {sarpra'i} could have sarpra'y- as a rafsi. That would leave very
> few forms without rafsi, besides all those that start with a vowel.

It appears to work. valfendi accepts {sarpra'ysmani} as a valid brivla; it is 
not yet disassembling the word to check the rafsi. I'll have to think about 
it.

phma