tosmabru

2020-10-05T19:59:29Z

Shouya:

A class of illegal [[lujvo|lujvo]]. '''*tosmabru''' looks like '''tos+mabru''' but in fact is '''to sma+bru'''. Lujvo of this form can be built as '''tosymabru'''.

=tosmabru test=
A test for correctness that all [[lujvo|lujvo]] must pass. The word '''*tosmabru''' fails the test: it falls apart into '''to smabru'''. To fix this, a '''y''' hyphen is inserted, leading to the morphologically correct lujvo '''tosymabru'''.

Conditions for not being a tosmabru word:
#the fourth letter not being a '''y'''
#the word's length in letters being more than five,
#the word's length in letters being congruent to two modulo three (two plus a multiple of three)
#the entire portion of the word after the second letter consisting of consonant-consonant-vowel affixes (which consist of an initial consonant pair and a following vowel that is not a '''y''').
However, it should check for the second condition and either the set of the remaining conditions or similar conditions, those being:
#the fifth letter not being a '''y'''
#the word's length in letters being divisible by three
#the entire portion of the word after the third letter consisting of consonant-consonant-vowel affixes.

For example, consider '''tosymabru'''. That the fourth letter is a "Y" reveals that it passes the tosmabru test.

<pre>
if is_initial_consonant_pair(word[:2]) == False \
or len(word) > 5 and (word[3] != "y" and len(word) % 3 == 2 and all([is_initial_consonant_pair(word[cluster:cluster + 2]) and is_regular_vowel(word[cluster + 2]) \
or cluster in range(2, len(word), 3)]) \
or word[4] != "y" and len(word) % 3 == 0 and all([is_initial_consonant_pair(word[cluster:cluster + 2]) and is_regular_vowel(word[cluster + 2]) for cluster in range(3, len(word), 3)])):
return []
</pre>

Full details are available in [http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap4.html#s11 CLL].

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