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Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>Would it be possible to make a distinction between
>the lerfu {.ybu}, and {.y. bu} a hesitation before 
>a {bu} that attaches to whatever came before?

Until now it is always legal to pause at any word break.  If a pause
is to become significant there then "ybu" must become a single word so
that it is not permitted to pause in the middle of it.  That doesn't
introduce any ambiguity, but does complicate the morphology.

I think I'd better do a proper analysis of the morphology, soon, before
it gets any more complicated.

-zefram