From phma@webjockey.net Thu Nov 28 11:14:45 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 28 Nov 2002 19:14:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 84344 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1900C3C6E2; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:14:39 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: How would you say "plural" and "singular"? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:14:36 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02112814143607.02982@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 17228 On Thursday 28 November 2002 14:09, Jorge Llambias wrote: > la djorden cusku di'e li'o > >Doesn't change that it's somewhat cheating though. > > Not just "somewhat". If you must borrow the word, then that's > what fu'ivla are for. CMENE are for proper names. So you can > say for example: {zoi gy dogs gy plurale zoi gy dog gy}, > {zoi gy dog gy singulare zoi gy dogs gy}. {me} with a cmene is a stage-2 fu'ivla. phma