Re: [lojban-beginners] vlastezba: First beta version released!

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

ba'e, ba'er, and ba'ercatra are to me a fun demonstration of an
interesting aspect of Lojban morphology.

ba'e is a cmavo for emphasis.  ba'e is *also* a rafsi for balre (blade).
Since a rafsi can't appear as a word by itself, it is perfectly legal
for the letters making up a rafsi to have a separate, independent cmavo
definition.  ba'er is also a valid cmene, so it is a cute example of an
interesting case where ba'e, by itself, is a cmavo, but but in a lujvo
means "blade."  In the particular lujvo I chose, the required 'r' after
ba'e, when *not* followed by more lujvo-stuff makes ba'er a cmene, having
nothing to do with either emphasis or bladeness.

-Alan

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:08:55PM +0200, Johan Pretorius wrote:
>    What is {ba'er} and what is {ba'ercatra}?
> 
>    When the spaces are there, I get:
>    Read file [coirodo.txt], got [3] unique words.
>    ba'er
>    ba'e
>    ba'ercatra
> 
>    When I take out the spaces, I get...
>    Read file [coirodo.txt], got [1] unique words.
>    ba'eba'erba'ercatra
> 
>    Which is... correct, I think? ba'er isn't a cmavo, so that thing isn't a
>    cmavo cluster.
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:42 PM, .alyn.post.
>    <[1]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> 
>      ba'e ba'er ba'ercatra
> 
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