Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

[Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com>]

Really? ua uisai

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Cyril Slobin <cyril@slobin.pp.ru> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, but the parts of the language in which such contractions take place
> are interesting.  mu'a in Russian "good night" is not contracted to below
> 5 syllables, and words are frequently made longer (diminutives).

Hey, my wife does actually use "spok nochi" (3 syllables)! ;-)

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