Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[la arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:49:46 AM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:49:16 Betsemes wrote:
> > And what make nicknames and real names different? Nothing. The only
> > difference is that a nickname is not the person's legal name. If
> > Lojban would become mainstream, people very well may attempt to name a
> > child with a brivla.
>
> There are countries with laws on the linguistic forms of allowed names. 
> Iceland requires that names be declinable in Icelandic. Turkey prohibits some 
> non-Turkic letters in names, which annoys Kurds, who use these letters in both 
> names and ordinary words in their language. Why shouldn't Lojbangug have such 
> a law?
>
> I favor keeping cmevla and brivla syntactically distinct. We've already 
> eliminated the adjective and the adverb.

adjectives are NOI-clauses.

Adverbs are sei-clauses or fi'o-clauses.

Alternatively, both of them are tanru.

>  Why eliminate the noun as well?
>
> Pierre
> -- 
> La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
> Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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