On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:09:10PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la djorden cusku di'e
> >It's not wrong: the pe happens inside the name. dogs is the same
> >as the thing called "plural of dog". You're thinking as if he
> >had said "zoi gy. dogs .gy. du la plural. ku pe zoi gy. dog .gy.".
>
> That's what one would expect, but {la plural ku} is not
> grammatical. {ku} is not allowed with CMENE.
I stand corrected.
> >Doesn't change that it's somewhat cheating though.
>
> Not just "somewhat". If you must borrow the word, then that's
> what fu'ivla are for. CMENE are for proper names. So you can
> say for example: {zoi gy dogs gy plurale zoi gy dog gy},
> {zoi gy dog gy singulare zoi gy dogs gy}.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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