Re: [lojban] The place structure of {selma'o}

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

2010/6/22 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Michael Turniansky
> <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Using "selma'o" to describe "CMENE" and
>> "BRIVLA" is just plain wrong and sloppy, in my opinion.
>
> The thing is that when we talk about syntactic word classes there's
> hardly ever a reason to exclude CMENE and BRIVLA. So we have a word
> with a relatively useless restriction and a frequent meaning that is
> almost covered by that word, and the result is that the restricted
> word takes on that slightly more encompassing meaning.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
>

  But my point is that the word "brivla" and "cmene" (well, really
cemvla?) ALREADY mean "A word in the word class of "BRIVLA" or
"CMEVLA"  But if you really wanted to figure out a general way to say
"word class", such as in "zo broda cu cmima  ma poi  klesi lo'i lojbo
valsi", well, what's wrong with the more general "vlalei"?

        --gejyspa

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