[lojban-beginners] Re: questions about questions

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:19:17PM +0100, HeliodoR wrote:
> > No, they don't. There are rather a lot of important cmavo which are sumti.
> >
> > mi, do, ko'a, ko'i, ma, & da all come to mind immediately.
> 
> Uhh... Yeah. But those are pro-sumti.  So the moral is that EVERY
> (sumti AND NOT pro-sumti) INVOLVE selbri.  Okay now?

No. pro-sumti are a subset of sumti. Not some unrelated set. Thus, not
all sumti involve selbri.

> > And 'ranjit' is a cmene, not a selbri.
> 
> I'm not so sure:
> http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less7acronym.html
> "Simply put, if you see a Lojban letter being used as a sumti, you
> take it as referring to the last sumti whose selbri starts with that
> letter."  And referring back to a person with the letter the name of
> that person begins with is a frequently used trick.

The categories of words are rather clearly dividied. cmene end in consonants.
brivla end in vowels. Letterals end in y (or 'bu'). ranjit ends in a
consonant, thus ranjit is a cmene. cmene aren't selbri.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>