Re: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/13/2001 5:57:05 AM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:

And while we're at it,
can we get rid of selma'o? They are very misleading. the place structure of
selma'o is  x2 is the grammatical class containing particle x1  - meaning
that by calling them both UI we put xu and .ui in the same grammar class.
they play extremely different roles. .ui expresses a feeling. xu makes
questions. Sounds the same to me!

Same GRAMMATICAL class (occur anywhere, absorbed by what goes before), not same semantic class or same fucntional class (there are some -- fairly unclear -- subdivisions of some selmaho to deal with the latter).