From cowan Sat Mar 6 22:51:12 2010 Subject: stress on -MOI words To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) From: cowan Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:20:08 EDT In-Reply-To: <9208280109.AA20128@relay1.UU.NET>; from "CJ FINE" at Aug 27, 92 11:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Aug 31 11:20:08 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cowan Message-ID: <3aFRY-VdalJ.A.NtH.gz0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> > 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. -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.