Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:06 AM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

la .lojbab. cu cusku di'e

"cmevla" means nothing to me as a concept.

What used to be called "cmene" is now commonly called "cmevla". A cmevla is a word that ends in a consonant. Calling such words "cmene" causes too much confusion, because cmene means "name", and brivla can be names, too, which means that "cmene" got used as meaning one thing in English, and another in Lojban, thus confusing people.

Nowadays it's more common to use the word "cmevla" to refer to the morphological class of "name-words".

I don't think it helped. I always get the two backwards. I hear cmene, I think "the words that end in a consonant and are surrounded by denpa bu". I hear cmevla, I think "a word that comes after {la} and its relatives".

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