[lojban-beginners] Re: grand mother

[Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> so... what is the difference between a cmene and a cmevla?


A cmene is a name.  "Brett Williams" is a cmene, as is "se ckiku",
though neither one has any cmevla in it.

A cmevla is a category of Lojban word.  They're the only words in
Lojban that end in consonants.

So you can use a cmevla as a cmene, just as you can use a brivla as a
selbri, but you can also use a brivla for a cmene, if you have a
selbri cmene. :)

mu'o mi'e la se ckiku (to selbri cmene toi) no'u la selkik (to cmevla cmene toi)