Re: [lojban] mind map of lojban terms

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that a cmevla was a word that could only be used
> as a name

Almost, but not quite. It can also be quoted "zo .aleks.", it can be
used to make a lerfu ".aleks. bu", it can be used to make a zei-lujvo:
"ka zei .aleks.".

But those are special uses. The most common use is as a name, as in
"la .aleks." or "doi .aleks".

> due to morphological constraints,

Not really due to morphological constraints. It's just a syntactic constraint.

> usually ending with a consonant,

Always, not usually. cmevla always end with a consonant, that's their
definition.

> but that pretty much anything could be a valid cmene (which is a word used
> as a name).

Sort of. Only a selbri or a string of cmevla can be used as a name.
But pretty much any word can be part of a selbri, if you join it with
"zei" to some other word, so in that sense, yes, anything can be a
valid name.  So "la zei la" can be a name: "la la zei la cu klama lo
zarci". But using "la zei la", or things like that, as a name can be
slightly confusing.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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