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On 3 June 2012 10:50, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a question of whether it would make sense. It can't be done. FAhA cmavo grammatically can not be converted. I would assume for the same reason the PU can not be converted, as both are tenses.

Should such a restriction be formally prescribed? I don't see a need
to have special syntax for FAhA etc. separately from BAI. It seems to
unnecessarily complicate the grammar.

FAhA, PU... these are all units of tag. If the grammar needs to
explicitly forbid certain tags such as "se fa'a" for the lack of a
corresponding sumti place (which is a better justification than "for
they are 'tenses'"), it should also forbid the likes of "te fa'e" and
"ve di'o" for the same reason ("fa'e" has no x3, and "di'o" has no
x4). And we may wish to have in the grammar neither avoidable
inconsistency nor unnecessary complication.

Many do-nots in Lojban are already based upon semantics, upon whether
it wouldn't make sense. I don't use "ve di'o", because it doesn't make
sense, even though grammatical; I wouldn't use "se fa'a", because it
wouldn't make sense, even if grammatical.

mu'o

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