From cowan Mon Aug 31 11:20:08 1992
Subject: stress on -MOI words
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: John Cowan <cbmvax!uunet!marob.masa.com!cowan>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:20:08 EDT
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> Incidentally, it seems to me that there is no necessity for number
> brivla (-MOI) to have da'amoi terbasna, since phonologically they are
> so'ocma - their syntactic status as brivla seems irrelevant to this
> question. pinka xu

Correct.  This is one of JCB's errors that we have fixed by the introduction
of "boi" to separate consecutive numbers (the old "five 55-gallon drums"
example).  Numeric selbri are no longer thought of as brivla, although they
are still grammatically equivalent to them.

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