On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:22, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> I think this all rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of lojban
> word classes. People like to think about gismu, cmavo and lujvo.
> But it's actually brivla, cmavo and cmene. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla
> are just different types of brivla; none are more privledged than
> the others.
Not true. Some fu'ivla have rafsi (proposed); all gismu except {brod(i,o,u)}
have rafsi; some gismu have short rafsi. So {malgaci zei smani} cannot be
shortened, but {glauka zei cnebo} can be shortened to {glaukyne'o}, and
{xamgu zei zmadu} can be shortened to {xagmau}.