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

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 20/05/07, mls1@rice.edu <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:

> > In any case, as you probably know, you can recognise a gismu by its
> > length and consonant/vowel composition: all gismu are of the form
> > CVCCV or CCVCV, and no non-gismu words are.

> So it is not possible for a fu'ivla to "accidentally" have CVCCV or CCVCV?

Ooops, didn't consider that.  I guess a Stage 4 fu'ivla may have that
form, I never really bothered with them much because they're so fiddly
and arcane.  I wouldn't know to be honest.

Certainly no cmavo, cmene, lujvo or Stage 3 fu'ivla can have that form.