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Rex: > on 4/25/02 1:47 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > > > But there's nothing unclear about it. In the Lojban grammar, which I get > > the impression it's Ceqli's goal to match, predicates are a very > > specific grammatical class. You can't include a word in the language > > until you know what its grammatical function is. > > I think it's not that so much as the fact that the only thing the cmavo have > in common is the fact that they're not names or predicates. Right. But I'd also query the idea that predicates are a very specific grammatical class. I'm not sure which class Rob means, since there isn't a class in Lojban called 'predicates'. --And.