Re: TECH.CHALLENGE: Pangram (was: Letters ...)

[C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK]

Assuming Mark's rules, but avoiding letterals or hesitation:

There are 17 consonants and only 5 vowels.
All brivla are more consonant-rich than all cmavo
So use as many brivla as possible.

Ignoring, {.'y}, the best you can get with gismu only is 3 consonants/2 vowels,
ie 6 words, total length 30. Using 2 CV cmavo instead of one gismu improves to
29.

dzipo gluta fere baxso ckini jmive
"(they're) antarctic gloves of two Malay-relative living things"

To add the missing symbols:

{.} uses up one or two vowels - either I or UI
{'} uses up two vowels
	can combine these in UI, or in a cmavo or lujvo
{y} requires a lujvo

1) Minimising use of lujvo:
Two strategies suggest themselves: either use a consonant-rich lujvo CVCyCCV
and use UI for the other two:
   .V'V CVCyCCV = 4C, 4V, 11 altogether
or use a CVCyCV'V lujvo and a V cmavo:
   .V CVCyCV'V = 3C, 4V, 10 altogether
The latter is shorter, but since the total number of different consonants is
2 mod 3, will require two cmavo, giving a total length of 34, against 33 for
the first strategy.
Therefore the minimal solution with only one (two-element) lujvo is of form
.V'V CVCyCCV CV gismu gismu gismu gismu (order completely free)

eg
.e'u zadyfra pa baxso ckini jmive gluta (33 characters)
"Let's react more to a Malay-related living thing's glove!"

2) Allowing free use of lujvo
CVC rafsi have the highest consonant/vowel ratio, so the answer is clearly
going to involve one or more long lujvo with lots of CVC's. Obvious strategy
is (CVC)*n-CV'V = 2n+1 consonants, n+2 vowels,   Thus with ".i" at the
beginning (can't use any other V word unless we have some sumti), and one
juncture requireing "y", we get

.i CVCCVCCVCCVCCVCCVCCVCCVCyCV'V  (31 characters)

eg

.i cabjagnixtulroskazdempafyva'i
"The currently-resulting girl's-leg prose has the quality of
dense father value" (or something)

(Once you've got the structure, they're easy to concoct, and I've no doubt
somebody can come up with better ones)

	Colin