From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 20 17:19:52 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 20 May 2007 17:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hpvct-0002h7-KG for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:19:51 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hpvct-0002h0-11 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:19:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:19:51 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: distinction between gismu & cmavo Message-ID: <20070521001950.GN7871@digitalkingdom.org> References: <2f91285f0705201027w32358e69v3e6093496d67cc5d@mail.gmail.com> <20070520174103.GK7871@digitalkingdom.org> <2f91285f0705201200m2d51977av421055dead3bffbb@mail.gmail.com> <20070520205750.GM7871@digitalkingdom.org> <2f91285f0705201557o75faa50avf0eaedd5f309881@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f91285f0705201557o75faa50avf0eaedd5f309881@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4552 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:55PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote: > > brivla (of which gismu are a type) are > >like English nounds, adjectives and adverbs. cmevla (name words) > >are proper names. cmavo are everything else; articles, > >conjunctions, and so on. > > > That "cmavo are everything else" makes sense to me. But verbs? > Can't verbs too be likened to brivla (predicate word), since > they're used to produce predicates? Erm, sorry, I meant to include verbs there with brivla. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/