From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 18 12:10:27 2004
Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34)
	id 1BxVpD-0004ZZ-1k
	for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:10:19 -0700
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:10:19 -0700
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban] Re: use of {co'e} and other cmavo in lujvo
Message-ID: <20040818191019.GF13226@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org
References: <200408181120.49430.phma@phma.hn.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <200408181120.49430.phma@phma.hn.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
X-archive-position: 8488
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org
Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org
X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org
Precedence: bulk
Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org
X-list: lojban-list

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:20:49AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I found {malkemcombau} in jbovlaste and got stumped figuring out what
> its place structure should be. 

First decide if it's of any actual use...

> But what's {combau}?

Some language unspecified?

> Then there's {jomcmi}. That is glossed as "set union" but the place
> structure has a stray "j" and doesn't make sense. Since {jo'e} has no
> place structure and there's nothing preceding it, I'm stumped.

jo'e takes two arguments, though.  Does that help?

> Then there's {bu} - why that has a rafsi I don't know. 

To make leterral lujvo.

> {le borbu'i javjve cu lemroito'e zorzo'i}

WTF?

-Robin

-- 
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"