Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: zoi gy. Good Morning! .gy.

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 09:28:27 +0200

EWC wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 22:29:45 -0000, "David Scriven" <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> [Re: cercoi = morning-deep]
> >Hmm... so why doesn't "coico'o" mean "deep goodbye"?
> 
> {cercoi} has the form of a lujvo, {coico'o} does not.
> {coi} is a rafsi in the first but of selma'o COI in the second.
> The difference between the two is that a lujvo must have
> a consonant pair in the first five letters.

Perhaps more to the point, lujvo are made of rafsi, and cmavo
are not rafsi, although 2/3 of all rafsi look exactly like cmavo.
You can't use a cmavo in a lujvo as if it were a rafsi; those
few cmavo that can appear in compounds have special rafsi forms
({sel} for {se}, {nar} for {na'e}, etc.), and {coi} and {co'o}
are not among them.

--Ivan