Re: [lojban-beginners] Question about appropriateness of articles

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

On Thursday 18 August 2011 22:36:37 Jed wrote:
> Is it okay to use "lo," "le," and their derivative forms as articles
> for:
>
> 1. Words created from roots, e.g. "ponkin" (anime)
> 2. Words whose context is apparent from the truncated gismu at their
> beginnings, e.g. "cidjrdonat." (doughnut)
>
> Or do I just have to use "la" and its derivative forms? I believe I've
> seen it written both ways, although I've never learned about these
> types of proper nouns in depth, and I don't know whether it's really
> correct to do so.

Those words are cmevla, so you have to use "la", 
e.g. "la .ponkin.". "lo .ponkin." is ungrammatical. You can make a selbri by 
preceding it with "me": "tu me la .kobus. la .kob." (a kind of African 
bovid). This is called a type-2 fu'ivla. You can also, of course, say "lo 
ponskina".

Pierre

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