[jbovlaste] Re: lobster

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 24 May 2011 12:46:05 John Cowan wrote:
> A. PIEKARSKI scripsit:
> > > breaks into "ne fropi". How about "nerfopi"? Also the family is
> > > sometimes called Homaridae, and Homarus was named earlier and has
> > > cognates in more languages.
> >
> > What's "fropi"?
>
> It isn't anything, but the morphology rules don't care which gismu are
> defined and which are not.

Nor do they care about whether the cmavo that falls off a brivla makes any 
sense grammatically. This one doesn't; "ne" has to be followed by a term, and 
a term can't begin with a brivla. Of course you could say "zo ne fropi", 
which is grammatical.

Pierre
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