[lojban] Re: everyday lojban

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 10/2/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone here might be able to correct me, but it seems that every
> series of letters that is used as a cmavo (a word) is also used as
> rafsi syllable (a prefix or suffix), and all rafsi are also used as
> cmavo. (Or almost all.)

More or less. Almost all CVV forms are cmavo, but there are a few (13)
exceptions, see
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=unassigned%20cmavo>,
and almost all CVV forms are rafsi, but there are many exceptions.
For example, "co'o" is not a rafsi because there was no gismu to which it
could have been assigned.

Of course CCV and CVC rafsi have no similar form cmavo.

> When Lojban is spoken properly,  the listener
> can always tell whether it's being used as a cmavo or rafsi.

Yes.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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