> That being said... da poi lujvo zo'u da du zo gliban.
Though {gliban} is not a lujvo, it is a cmevla. The common lujvo for English is {glibau}.
> I suppose also that it does not matter that zo xau is not a cmavo
Well, {xau} is a morphologically a cmavo (so in that sense it is indeed a cmavo), and those of the form xVV and xV'V are for experimental usages (such as {xa'o}, {xo'o}, {xo'e}).
> As for your other comment: That makes sense. lo'u do drani le'u states
> that you are-the-thing-that-is-right.
Personally, I'm not really sure what can go into drani1, since there is also drani2... It seems that if {lo se cusku be do drani lo ka ce'u broda}, then necessarily {do drani lo ka lo se cusku be ce'u broda}. But I will leave it for other brave souls to show how to correctly use {drani}.
> On that note, I can also see how "lo se cusku be mi" is stronger than the
> malgli way of using possessives for everything (lo mi cusku).
Well {lo mi se cusku}, which by definition is the same as {lo se cusku pe mi}, are also fine. What I really wanted to point out was the {se}.
> What is the distinction between a property and an event? Is it a subjective
> matter of "how I want to express this particular thing," or is there an
> objective distinction?
In my opinion, the CLL is a bit confused about properties/{ka}. Some light on the development of {ka} can be found here:
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/ lessons/lessacehu.html
(in particular the sentence "when {ka} was originally invented, {ce'u} didn't exist yet")
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/ka,+du'u,+si'o,+ce'u,+zo'e
(more history)
A current usage of {ka} is summed up in this excellent article by la tsani:http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Tsani's+Interpretations:+ Abstractors
I suppose la tsani was inspired by la selpa'i, who writes:
"I'm sure Gua\spi has been an inspiration for those few, courageous, Lojbanists who went ahead and gave Gua\spi a closer look. Not only did it probably inspire the use of {sei}+{ke'a} as a bridi relative clause in Lojban, it also probably helped the {ka}-volution thanks to its very ce'u-esque gismu definitions."
(buried in a slightly unrelated blog post http://selpahi.weebly.com/9/post/2013/06/recycling-some- )coi-cmavo-not-coi-or-coi.html
Hopefully this might give you an idea about how {ka} is used, at least by some on IRC. My "creti'i" to you is to visit the IRC channel.
mu'o