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Subject: Re: [bpfk] Two meanings of {bu}
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Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG scripsit:

> bu is supposed to take a word and convert it into a symbol.  Thus
> abu doesn't itself anaphorically reference anything.  It is simply
> the lerfu "a". However, when used in a sentence, it could mean
> anything the lerfu a could mean, which in many languages includes
> use as a variable, and therefore could be an anaphoric reference.

Just so.  So what we are discussing is not what "abu" means, but
what "abu" refers to when it is used as anaphora and there is no
explicit binding with "goi" or whatever.

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