[lojban-beginners] Re: distinction between gismu & cmavo

[Elmo Todurov <todurov@gmail.com>]

Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev 20 mai 2007 8:27 pm) kirjutas Vid Sintef:
> My understanding is that every gismu consists of 5 letters. But on the
> gismu list I find those various words of less than 5 letters. {mi} is an
> example. Precisely, is {mi} a gismu, or is it a cmavo? If cmavo, why can it
> be a sumti for a selbri without some descriptor like {le} as is the case
> for a gismu when used as an argument?

If you want to use a gismu as a sumti, you need an article (le, la, lo, and 
some others). If you want to use a cmavo (like mi, do, ko'a and lots of 
others), you don't need articles.

When you see stuff like "le mi palku", it doesn't mean that I'm pants, it 
means "my pants", something different altogether.

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