Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: How would you say "plural" and "singular"?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:09:10 +0000

la djorden cusku di'e

>It's not wrong: the pe happens inside the name. dogs is the same
>as the thing called "plural of dog". You're thinking as if he
>had said "zoi gy. dogs .gy. du la plural. ku pe zoi gy. dog .gy.".

That's what one would expect, but {la plural ku} is not
grammatical. {ku} is not allowed with CMENE.

>Doesn't change that it's somewhat cheating though.

Not just "somewhat". If you must borrow the word, then that's
what fu'ivla are for. CMENE are for proper names. So you can
say for example: {zoi gy dogs gy plurale zoi gy dog gy},
{zoi gy dog gy singulare zoi gy dogs gy}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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