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

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la pier cusku di'e

> I found {malkemcombau} in jbovlaste and got stumped figuring out what its 
> place structure should be.

Probably a generalization of "malglico". What's the place structure
of {malglico}?

> I've thought of using {co'e} for making the 
> equivalent of denominal verbs, e.g. {ko remco'e le tcana} "man the station",

That sounds very malglico to me. What has being a human being got
to do with operating or taking position at a "station"? Is the idea 
that only a human being could do that job? 
 
> and have made up {comdaidza} "thingamajig" (along with {rodbo'e} and a couple
> of others). But what's {combau}?

Probably intended as "whatever language" or something. {bangu be makau}?

> 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.

I would take {jo'e zei cmima} to have place structure:
{x1 cmima x2 jo'e x3}, i.e "x2 is a member of the union of x2 and x3".
i.e. "x1 is a member of either x2 or x3 (or both)".

Or even better "x1 is a memnber of x1 and x2 and x3 and..." with an 
indefinite place structure.

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

That's one of Lojban's mysteries.

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

mi oi zei cai

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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