[lojban-beginners] Re: bridi into a cmene

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

On Monday 11 February 2008 02:13, Isen hand wrote:
>   Thanks all for the comments on creating the cmene but I’m still not happy
> on one point.
>
>   I’ve been looking though the online version of the complete lojban
> language and it says regarding cmene:
>
>   “Names may have almost any form, but always end in a consonant, and are
> followed by a pause.”
>
>   So, it looks to me that whatever we use for Puerto Rican Independence
> Party, it should end in a consonant should it not? If not, why not?

The book is talking about cmevla. You can take a selbri, precede it with {la}, 
and make a cmene. You can also take one or more cmevla, precede it with {la}, 
and make a cmene. So {la kot.divuar.} and {la xantyde'i xaskoi} are both 
cmene, though only the first has cmevla in it.

Pierre