Re: [lojban] Re: A new guide that needs guidance

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:12 AM, M. Nael <muhammad.nael@gmail.com> wrote:

For me till now, 'bu' is a rafsi (right?) that means a 'letteral'...

No. It's a cmavo. rafsi are the combining forms of words used to make lujvo.
 

What I meant is, why not have a sort of cmene to mean specific lerfu?

We do. The name of Q is "kybu".
 

especially those of other languages? I can't imagine using la for that...

2. Could Lojban be used as a primarily SOV language? Somewhere between chapter 2 and 3 of Lojban for beginners, the writers says that you can 'promote' several sumti to preceed the selbri; does this mean it could act as a complete SOV lang.?

Yes, it is possible to say/write Lojban bridi in the such a way as to act like it's an SOV language. Or an OSV one, or a VSO one, or any other word order. But Lojban doesn't have /verbs/, so it would only be /appearing/ to be such-it wouldn't actually be.

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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