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Jorge Llambías wrote:

>On 4/23/05, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
>  
>
>>The Lojban word for relationship is "brivla", which is the main word in
>>a Lojban sentence. These come in three flavours: gismu (base words),
>>lujvo (compound words) and fu'ivla (words from other languages). An
>>"argument" is just a complicated name for the x1, x2, x3, x4 or x5
>>places of a brivla.
>>    
>>
>
>Just a minor nitpick: "brivla" is really a morphological term, that 
>contrasts with "cmene" and "cmavo". Every Lojban word is one
>of those three by their form. 
>
>All brivla are relationships, but not all relationships are brivla. The
>Lojban word for relationship is "selbri". Examples of non-brivla
>relationships (or selbri) are {du}, {go'i}, {pa moi}, {me la djan}, ...
>  
>
.io ki'e .i mi ca'o cilre

mi'e mikevdg.