[lojban-beginners] Re: distinction between gismu & cmavo

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:27:31PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote:
> 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.

{mi} is a cmavo; it is listed on the gismu list solely because it
has a rafsi, and the cmavo list format doesn't have room for those.

-Robin

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