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Subject: Re: [lojban] useless selmaho? (was: RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn
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From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>


la and cusku di'e

>I agree about JOhI, MAhO and NAhU, not deserving of to be learnt, and I
>would add:
>
>FUhA
>BIhE
>PEhO

Yes, certainly. I missed them. I also missed NUhA.

>But I think NIhE and MOhE (and hence TEhU) are potentially *extremely*
>useful. Had they not existed, I probably would have been agitating for
>them (and persuading noone).

Maybe just mo'e. What would you use ni'e for?

>As for VUhU, it isn't worthwhile as a selmaho, but some of its members
>are worth having, though they could be in PA. One probably can't get
>away with learning no members of VUhU (e.g. gei).

That's true. There are other selma'o in a similar situation.
For example, BIhI should have been in JOI, and GAhO in UI. I have
found occasions where I wanted to use GAhO in UI places.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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