[lojban-beginners] Re: cmavo

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> is there a method to the cmavo-madness?

Some.

> some seem to be derived from gismu (me'e, po'e, ci'o, ju'o,....)
> others do not.

Correct.

> i cannot find out. are these then randomly chosen?

There are islands of method. For example in vi/va/vu, zi/za/zu/,
ve'i/ve'a/ve'u/ve'e, ze'i/ze'a/ze'u/ze'e, you can see a rule, so they
were not chosen completely at random. The choice of "v" and "z" here
might have been random (or inherited from Loglan). You can see another
rule in fa/fe/fi/fo/fu. But there is no rule to cover all cmavo, no.

> is there a way of (more) easily memorizing them?

It's probably worth memorizing all CV cmavo (they are almost all used
with relatively high frequency), it's probably not worth memorizing
all CV'V cmavo. But everyone has their peferred method of learning. I
rather not memorize what is never used, so what I tend to remember is
only what I use or see others using.

> (i mean, i can remember me'e very easily because i see the rafsi of 'cmene')

All BAI cmavo (except do'e and tai actually) have a gismu associated
with them, but they are not necessarily identical to a rafsi of that
gismu. Most of the BAIs are never used however, so I wouldn't
especially recommend commiting them to memmory.

mu'o mi'e xorxes