Digit strings

["Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>]

Your proposal about using rafsi for {megdo}, {gigdo}, etc, as
number-builders inside digit strings is, as you surmised, ungrammatical,
since you can't use rafsi as rafsi anywhere but in lujvo and le'avla.
Besides, they all end in consonants, making for all sorts of trouble.  But
maybe there can be a way that's related, I'll wait for other people's
ideas.

Your problem with {ci ki'omegdo} is no problem.  Even assuming the
semantics of your two alleged parsings were different, the fact is there's
really only one parse.  {ci ki'omegdo} is unambiguously {ci ki'o boi megdo
ku}.  Why?  because the {ki'o} here can't be part of a lujvo; it fails the
*tosmabru test, by demonstration!  Since it *can* fall apart, it does.  If
you want a lujvo, you need {ki'ormegdo}.  So that's okay.

~mark (shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu)