[lojban-beginners] Re: gendered and gender-neutral language

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/22/05, Robert Griffin <mugglesnsquibs@msn.com> wrote:
> Coi rodoi
> (which brings up the question, I used to see 'coi redoi', but now only see
> 'coi rodo'. Which is correct?)

{coi ro do} is correct, {coi ro doi} is ungrammatical. {coi} has to be followed
by a sumti or a selbri, or just closed with the terminator {do'u}.

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>  On the other hand, since lojban maintains NO grammatical or lexical
> gender differences, excepting 'patfu' and 'mamta',

And a very few others:

bersa - tixnu
bruna - mensi
nanmu - ninmu
nanla - nixli

and of course:

nakni - fetsi

I believe those are all.

mu'o mi'e xorxes