Re: lujvo morphology

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Chris Bogart replies:
>R.M. Uittenbogaard wrote:
>>....In one of the ckafybarja texts found on an ftp site,
>> the word "mlitoinandu" appears. I wondered how a Lojban-speaker would know
>> that this is intended to be one single lujvo: since the stressed syllable is
>> the penultimate one, I would expect this word to fall apart into
>> "mlitoi nandu" which is a tanru and so might have a distinct meaning from
>> the meaning intended.
>
>I'm not sure, but I think that was an error -- it should be
>"mlitoirnandu".

No.  An r/n hypen is ONLY inserted after an initial CVV rafsi, and is not
permitted anywhere else.  (It is also not permitted in a CVVCCV lujvo, the
only CVV-initial lujvo that does not fall apart without it.)  In short,
if the r/n is either required or forbidden - never optional.  The same
is true of 'y' hyphens.

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