*diklujvo

[lojbab (Bob LeChevalier)]

Nora noticed when I was preparing JL15 that *diklujvo is not a legal
Lojban word.  It fails what is called the 'Tosmabru test', which is
described in the Synopsis for those who have it (and will be in with the
rafsi list for new level 1's and above after the beginning of July).

Remembering that Lojban is supposed to have a uniquely r4esolvable sound
speech-stream, the "Tosmabru" test verifies against a lujvo breaking up
into 2 or more words.  "Tosmabru" itself (an old-Loglan word proposal)
breaks up, and hence is the archetype, even though it is not currently a
possible proposed word in Lojban.

Such breakup occurs when you have a CVC rafsi on the beginning of a variety
of strings of rafsi, such that all consonant clusters up to the first 'y'
hyphen or the end of the word are all permissible initials.  In the simplest
case, a word like "Tosmabru" or "diklujvo", a CVC + CVCCV breaks up into
a CV + CCVCCV word.  Thus "diklujvo" in a Lojban speech stream is the
sentence "di klujvo"  something x3 is a cultural-lujvo.

The solution to a "Tosmabru word is to insert a mandatory 'y' hyphen at the
first rafsi junction, at which point there cannot be a breakup.  Thus the
correct form of jimc's oft-used word is "dikylujvo", or using the shorter
rafsi, "dikyjvo".

The only real way to learn this test is to make lots of lujvo until it gets
ingrained.  I still stumble, but Nora checks everything.

lojbab