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Re: [bpfk] BAhE + BU
xorxes wrote:
> I don't know if we have an explicit statement anywhere about what
> makes magic words magic, but I would say it's these two properties:
>
> (1) It can modify (almost) any other word.
> (2) The grammar of the resulting construct is independent of the class of
> the word(s) it modifies.
[...]
> UI and BAhE satisfy condition (1) for the most part, they are not very
> choosy in what they interact with, but not condition (2), because the
> resulting constructs retain the grammar of the word they modify.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the elucidation!
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