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Subject: RE: [lojban] Types of fu'ivla in natural languages
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:23:13 -0400
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>How common are types 2, 3, and 4 fu'ivla in natural languages? (I don't
think
>it makes sense to speak of a type-1 fu'ivla in a language that doesn't have
a
>foreign-word marker.)

My sense is that type 1 is reasonably common, and in English is the same as
type 2. Note that we often mark foreign words by italicizing them. Type 3
don't occur in English, and type 4 are not randomly coined but are used when
a new idea is introduced.

                             --la kreig.daniyl.

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     .i denci gunma le se gidva'

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