On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Stela Selckiku
<selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Geoffrey Stewart
<geoffstewart56@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That gloss was misleading
They always are. :)
> But if I dropped the S, wouldn't it be an invalid
> cmene, seeing how they must end in a
> consonent? Just wondering.
It would be an invalid *cmevla*, which is a particular shape of word.
Being a name is the only thing you can use a cmevla for, but a cmevla
isn't the only thing you can use as a name. Don't worry, that's
obviously confusing, and it takes everyone a little while to get it.
:) Consider "gejyspa", who you just addressed in your email, his name
is a lujvo. Or consider my name, "stela selckiku", it's a tanru.
The fact that a name can be a tanru, like mine, explains something
about names that aren't cmevla: Sometimes they need more termination.
For instance you can say "la .bob. klama", Bob goes, and you don't
need a terminator.
(Unless we decide to merge cmevla with brivla as .xorxes. suggests.)
But you can't just say "la tirxu klama" to mean
"the one named Tiger goes" because there could be a tanru cmene "tirxu
klama"-- someone could be named Tiger Goer! So you have to say "la
tirxu ku klama" or "la tirxu cu klama".
(I've recently noticed a habit I have to dot any name, cmene or cmevla, like when I asked about your name and referred to it as .stela,selckiku. I've never really seen the point in requiring both a final consonant /and/ a stop, so I'll use that as my excuse for doing it. :) )
I second the suggestion that you should use "djefri", that's a really
cool name. :)
mi'e la stela selckiku mu'o