Subject: RE: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu?

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:33:09 -0500

At 12:36 AM 11/16/01 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
>Not a bad answer, but in {du'u xu kau broda} the {xu kau} is to be
>replaced with {ja'a} or {na}, and by the usual rule of replacing
>like with like, that would mean that {xu} should be in JAhA.

Remember that all applications of kau are back-formations, since it was 
added well after the bulk of the language was complete.

But also I don't think that "du'u mi broda xukau le brode" would be 
replaced by "du'u mi broda ja'a/na[ku] le brode" (and I'd hate to have to 
say "xuku" with a straight face anyway %^).

lojbab
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