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[lojban-beginners] distinction between gismu & cmavo
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] distinction between gismu & cmavo
- From: "Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:27:31 +0100
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My understanding is that every gismu consists of 5 letters. But on the gismu list I find those various words of less than 5 letters. {mi} is an example. Precisely, is {mi} a gismu, or is it a cmavo? If cmavo, why can it be a sumti for a selbri without some descriptor like {le} as is the case for a gismu when used as an argument?