On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com> wrote:A: la'e di'u smuni zo ...
>> If it's an existing selma'o, then either UI or BAhE are the best choices, I think. Even they will fail if the first speaker ends with ZO or ZEI though, because you wouldn't be able to complete with what you really want to complete. You would need to use some additional trick with SI.
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> I honestly don't understand what you are talking about here.
B: ?
What does B say? Suppose B wants to complete A's sentence with
"blablabla". Suppose the "continue preceding speaker's utterance"
cmavo is "di'ai". So:
B: di'ai blablabla
Now the full text is "la'e di'u smuni zo di'ai blablabla". But that's
not what B wanted. So B has to say:
B: di'ai si zo blablabla
which gives "la'e di'u smuni zo di'ai si zo blablabla".
Since "si" will delete "zo di'ai", then B gets what they wanted.
That's what I meant by a trick with SI.
But I now realise there's a problem with that too. What if B said
"di'ai" by mistake, and he wanted to delete it? Now B's text will be
construed as continuing A's, and B has no way out of it. I suppose B
has to resort to "fa'o" then to get out of A's text.
mu'o mi'e xorxes