[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban beginners list

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 4/23/05, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> The Lojban word for relationship is "brivla", which is the main word in
> a Lojban sentence. These come in three flavours: gismu (base words),
> lujvo (compound words) and fu'ivla (words from other languages). An
> "argument" is just a complicated name for the x1, x2, x3, x4 or x5
> places of a brivla.

Just a minor nitpick: "brivla" is really a morphological term, that 
contrasts with "cmene" and "cmavo". Every Lojban word is one
of those three by their form. 

All brivla are relationships, but not all relationships are brivla. The
Lojban word for relationship is "selbri". Examples of non-brivla
relationships (or selbri) are {du}, {go'i}, {pa moi}, {me la djan}, ...

mu'o mi'e xorxes