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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:34:09PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> 
> > To parse: "lo'u mi le'u si lo'u mi le'u"       
> > 
> > You do step "c" of the preprocessing                         
> > 
> > LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU si LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU   
> > 
> > 
> > LOhU any_words_697{mi} LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU           
> 
> So far so good.  But this is ungrammatical, because between LOhU and
> LEhU you have three tokens, and only one is permitted, which must be
> an any_words_697.

You've just contradicted a post of yours to BPFK Section: lerfu Forming
cmavo, by the way:

    Robin Lee Powell scripsit: 

    > To be more clear: bu is handled by preprocessing, which only eats one 
    > word+bu token. 

    Where is this written? It says "all BU tokens", which means AFAICT 
    "cook until done". 

    > bu appearing after preprocessing is an error. 

    Indeed. Furthermore, it's an impossibility. 

If BU gets 'cooked until done', *despite* there being no indication of
this in the preprocessing documentation, why don't lo'u...le'u and si?

You can't have it both ways.

-Robin

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