[lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations?

["Chris Howlett" <chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk>]

Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I was referring to the
.-pauses. Why do you need a '.' before the cmene after a COI cmavo, but
not after la?

mu'omi'e .kris.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org] On 
> Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> Sent: 20 September 2004 19:58
> To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:45:56PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > PS. Incidentally - I've been getting a little confused over 
> this. Why 
> > is it "la kris." but "mi'e .kris."? I can't help feeling that it 
> > should be one or the other, but Lojban for Beginners seems 
> to suggest 
> > not.
> 
> All cmavo in the same group as "coi" can take a name 
> directly, without "la" preceding.  So can "doi".
> 
> Here's a list of COI cmavo:
> 
>  be'e      COI      request to send
>  co'o      COI      partings
>  coi       COI      greetings
>  fe'o      COI      over and out
>  fi'i      COI      hospitality
>  je'e      COI      roger
>  ju'i      COI      attention
>  ke'o      COI      please repeat
>  ki'e      COI      thanks
>  mi'e      COI      self-introduction
>  mu'o      COI      over
>  nu'e      COI      promise
>  pe'u      COI      please
>  re'i      COI      ready to receive
>  ta'a      COI      interruption
>  vi'o      COI      wilco
> 
> -Robin
> 
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