Re: [lojban] Re: cmegadri valfendi preti

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> fu'ivla, especially Type IVs, however, are irregular, and thus there are 
> few aural patterns that distinguish them.  I haven't heard spoken Lojban 
> with a lot of fu'ivla in them, but I suspect that with fluent speech they 
> will be the hardest to identify.

I would actually like to see the byfy nail down the definition of Type 4s,
saying "They take these forms and no others" rather than the current
negative definition: "They take whatever forms are left after gismu/
cmavo compounds/lujvo/Type 3s/rafsi fu'ivla have been removed."

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