[lojban] Re: use of {co'e} and other cmavo in lujvo

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:20:49AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I found {malkemcombau} in jbovlaste and got stumped figuring out what
> its place structure should be. 

First decide if it's of any actual use...

> But what's {combau}?

Some language unspecified?

> Then there's {jomcmi}. That is glossed as "set union" but the place
> structure has a stray "j" and doesn't make sense. Since {jo'e} has no
> place structure and there's nothing preceding it, I'm stumped.

jo'e takes two arguments, though.  Does that help?

> Then there's {bu} - why that has a rafsi I don't know. 

To make leterral lujvo.

> {le borbu'i javjve cu lemroito'e zorzo'i}

WTF?

-Robin

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