[lojban-beginners] Re: vono sementu etc

[Cortesi <dcortesi@mindspring.com>]

Michael corrects my errors in parsing the first sentence of his  
Berenstein Bears story:

Re my puzzlement about  {guzmrkukurbita} for pumpkin he says

>  I was modeling it on their derivation of the fu’ivla for “maple”  
> which was also from the binomial name (see the LLG, Chapter 4, ex.  
> 7.4 and the subsequent paragraph).
> It’s a stage 3 fu’ivla (foreign borrowing), which like other non- 
> cmene end with a vowel, but are distinguishable by their CCVC or  
> CVCC beginning glued on with an r (or n  if r is impossible, or l  
> if both r and n are impossible), rather than a “y” which would  
> signify a compound brivla.

I totally misread {loi drata mivmu'e} (doh!),

> “drata mivmu’e” is a tanru (they are simple brivla, with no cmavo  
> between them).  It’s “different (or other) type of nature (this  
> lujvo, as many others I’ve used, are found in norlujv (the  
> “current” lujvo list on the wordlists page)

And I was correct in that Papa Bear's use of go'o does refer to his  
own next utterance -- had I continued to the next sentence I would  
have seen that. Personally I don't think go'o is the kind of thing  
that would appear in conversation, as opposed to an essay, but it  
wasn't wrong & I misread it through haste.

Dave Cortesi