Re: category errors in sumti

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

Lojbab to me:
> Cowan may have just said something roughly like this but:
> >The fact remains that it IS possible for a selbri to have a sumti that
> >must be concrete or must be abstract, just as it is possible for a
> >selbri to have a sumti that must be male or must be female.
>
> But the latter is not particularly true.  Can you give an example of
> one?

Easy. I could easily create a lujvo or fu`ivla to do the job,
but I don't need to: {nanmu} and {ninmu} immediately spring
to mind. x1 of nanmu must be male.

> On the other hand there are sumti places that would make no SENSE if an
> abstraction were used instead of a concrete, and vice versa.

I'm glad to see this obvious fact has finally dawned on you.

--And