Re: [lojban] compound cmavo classification in cmavo.txt

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:49:36AM -0700, .alyn.post. wrote:
> The following file:
> 
>   http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/cmavo.txt
> 
> Is a list of cmavo.  I believe it is the canonical list, please
> correct me if that is a misunderstanding.
> 
> This file includes compound cmavo, like "le go'i", but only
> includes a single selma'o class, even when the compound cmavo
> consists of cmavo in more than one selma'o. 

That's what the * means.

> I particularly question these productions:
> 
> JAI VA     -> SE
> JAI BAI    -> SE
> JAI PU     -> SE
> LE GOhA    -> KOhA
> LE SE GOhA -> KOhA
> 
> Because I don't think there is any grammatical way in that compound
> cmavo become a differente, single cmavo, 

No, but they work the same way.  That is, "mi se klama" and "mi jai
pu klama" have almost the same parse tree.

What cmavo.txt *actually* says there is SE*, which means "this is
a compound that sorta-kinda acts like SE".

-Robin

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