Re: [lojban-beginners] compound cmavo (and pauses) in BY selma'o

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:38 PM, .alyn.post.
<alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:11:39PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:30 PM, .alyn.post.
>> <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
>> > There are several compound cmavo in the BY selma'o, {.abu}, {.ebu},
>> > &c.  Is this the only selma'o which has words with pauses in them?
>>
>> ".a bu", "denpa bu", "pavyseljirna bu", "bi bu bu bu" etc. are *not*
>> members of BY (and they are not all compound cmavo). They are
>> constructs that behave almost as if they were in BY, but they are not
>> in BY.
>>
>> Similarly "broda zei brode", "da zei de", ".a zei .e zei .i zei .o zei
>> .u", etc are not members of BRIVLA, although they behave almost as if
>> they were.
>>
>> Similarly "zo ,a", "zo .djan.", "zo zo" are not members of KOhA,
>> although they behave almost as if they were. (And the same can be said
>> of the ZOI and LOhU constructs.)
>
> Chapter 17 of the CLL seems to imply otherwise.  I gather this is
> errata for the CLL?

CLL says: "All such words suffixed by “bu” are treated grammatically
as if they were cmavo belonging to selma'o BY" which is basically
correct (the only exceptions being around other magic words). I
wouldn't say that's an erratum, perhaps "almost as if they were" would
be more exact.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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