(comment on the phrase ma canja parbi lo dotru'u lo jborupnu)
is it just me, or could this also be interpreted as ma canja parbi lo dotru'u 'lojbo rupnu'?
- Nope. If you're saying lojbo rupnu, you need to put stress on the lo. If you put stress on a cmavo alone or at the end of a compound, you need to follow it by a pause. So the first is dotru'ulojborupnu or dotru'ulo.jborupnu, and the second is dotru'ulojborupnu.
- do has the rafsi doi - is doi'ger'ku 'your dog' or 'Hey, dog!'?
- It's "Hey, dog!" Lujvo glue exists for exactly this reason - the lujvo for "your dog" is "doirgerku", not "doigerku".
- How is the doi rafsi useful if it must always have glue except finally? Why doesn't do stick with just don?
- It can be used medially: mibjoidoigerku = "your and my dog" (is this tosmabru-safe?)
- Yes. If you drop the mi you don't get anything which could be a Lojban word.
- Interestingly enough, this brings us back to stress - only a subtle difference in stress differentiates mibjoidoigerku from mibjoi doi gerku. Perhaps if you want to make a lujvo like that, it would be preferable to use more consonants, as in mibjoldongerku.
- It can be used medially: mibjoidoigerku = "your and my dog" (is this tosmabru-safe?)
- do has the rafsi doi - is doi'ger'ku 'your dog' or 'Hey, dog!'?
- see also Stuff to be removed from the language