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Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>I have no idea where you got these rules from.
>
Nothing like a good ad hominem to put me in my place, eh?  ;)

>  #1 applies to
>selma'o UI and CAI only, as does #2.  That's about 220 cmavo out of,
>umm, about a thousand.  So #3 covers the vast majority of cmavo.  A
>few of the more important ones in #3, just off the top of my head:
>.i je gi'e .e .a lo le la cu bo.
>  
>
Right, exactly.  That is why cmavo are so freaking hard to learn.  
Definitely somewhat of a hack to supplement that which brivla cannot 
describe.  It's more elegant than English, true, but achieving that is 
not very hard.  I really should find some place that lists all the types 
of cmavo (selma'o?) and at least learn the types, if not all "umm, about 
a thousand" individual thingies.