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

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

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:55PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote:
> > brivla (of which gismu are a type) are
> >like English nounds, adjectives and adverbs.  cmevla (name words)
> >are proper names.  cmavo are everything else; articles,
> >conjunctions, and so on.
> 
> 
> That "cmavo are everything else" makes sense to me. But verbs?
> Can't verbs too be likened to brivla (predicate word), since
> they're used to produce predicates?

Erm, sorry, I meant to include verbs there with brivla.

-Robin

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