Re: [lojban] Two more type IV fu'ivla questions

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Richard Curnow wrote:

> 1. In the online version of the Ref. Grammar there is a statement
> 
>   It is possible to have fu'ivla like ``spa'i'' that are five letters
>   long,
> 
> yet doesn't spa'i fail the slinku'i test, because (for example) baspa'i
> would be a valid lujvo (I leave the meaning to the reader's imagination
> :-) )  So is the first statement wrong?

It sure does, and "spa'i" is not valid.

> 2. Does Lojban make any use at all of CCV as a word on its own (e.g.
>    spa)?

No.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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