TECH: tosmabru test rationale (PU: TECH QUERY: variant fu'ivla)

[Paulo Barreto <pbarreto@UNISYS.COM.BR>]

cu'u la dn. joi mi

>>the proposed form cannot be confused because of the
>>anti-tosmabru hyphen
>
>.i tosmabru ki'a .i .uanaisai .i lo mabru cu danlu .i zo tos. rafsi ma

That's not Lojban. It's an instance of the flaw Nora LeChevalier found in
Loglan, motivating the hyphen rule in section 11 of the morphology paper.

I'm not surprised at your question. In fact, I'm glad about that (.ui).
Without the hyphen rule, "tosmabru" would be ambiguously analyzed into
either "to sma,bru" or "tos,mabru" (the correct form, if there existed a
"tos" rafsi at all, would be "tosymabru").

co'o mi'e paulos.

Paulo S.L.M. Barreto -- Software Analyst
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       e'osai ko sarji la lojban.