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On 27 May 2015, at 01:30, Jorge Llamb=C3=ADas <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> The terminator for "sei" is "se'u", but it is very often elidible.
>>=20
>> Well, it=E2=80=99s YOUR language, guys, but that pretty much defeats the=
 predictability of the system. If you have sei/se=E2=80=99u alongside lu/li=
=E2=80=99u, why can on be elided but the other not?
>=20
> "li'u" can be elided sometimes too, but less often. The reason is that th=
e type of things that sei-se'u can bracket is much more restricted than the=
 type of things lu-li'u can bracket.

=E2=80=9CCan be elided sometimes=E2=80=9D. What are the rules for choosing?=
=20

>>>> Is the position of a closing em-dash predictable?
>>>=20
>>> Yes, but you need to parse the sentence.
>>>=20
>> Then it=E2=80=99s not predictable.
>=20
> How does that folow? What do you mean by "predictable" then? Given any gr=
ammatical utterance, you can know without any ambiguity where the em-dash g=
oes.

You can=E2=80=99t predict without knowing the language, unless you can tell=
 me that every selbri (verb?) has a certain syllable structure and that no =
other words or particles in the language have that same structure.=20

I can predict where to add in guillemets because of the citation particles.=
 Not so with sei/se=E2=80=99u if the latter is left off. And what is the ra=
tionale for leaving it off?=20

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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