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Re: [bpfk] BAhE + BU
There is one question left, raised by Riley on IRC:
The consensus seemed to be that iterated BAhE all combine to mark the next word, rather than marking each other -- so BAhE can't mark BAhE. I added this note to the definitions.
Concretely, I propose these changes to make the three pages in question more consistent and less confusing:
1) BPFK Section: lerfu forming cmavo
- Remove "BAhE" from the definition of {bu} to leave the following:
- bu
- Combines with the previous word to make a Lojban
letteral, provided that it is not one of the quote cmavo (ZO, ZOI, LOhU,
LEhU) or one of the erasure cmavo (SI, SA, SU), ZEI, or FAhO. If
the aforementioned previous word is already a letteral, the resulting
letteral will not necessarily be the same, for instance, "ky. bu" is
different from "ky". In addition to single words, bu can be combined
with a letteral that is already a composite of a word+bu, a zei-lujvo, a
zo-quoted word, a lo'u-quoted string of words or a zoi-quoted foreign text. If there is
no previous word, "bu" is in error; this entails that "bu bu" by itself
is also ungrammatical.
2) BPFK Section: Nonce connectives
- Clarify/unify/simplify the definitions of {ba'e} and {za'e} to leave the following:
- ba'e (BAhE)
- Emphasize next word. Forethought emphasis indicator. Indicates that next word is especially
emphasized or emphatic. For grammatical purposes, "ba'e" marks the
following word but does not change its nature. (The construct behaves just as the marked word by itself.) The two words are considered distinct for "sa" matching purposes. Multiple BAhE cmavo may be used in succession, and they combine to mark the next non-BAhE word.
- See also za'e, .ui, sa, "Magic Words".
- Keywords: Emphasize next word, emphasize next.
- za'e (BAhE)
- Nonce word follows.
Forethought nonce-word indicator. Indicates that the next word is a
nonce creation or is nonstandard in some way. For grammatical purposes,
"za'e" marks the following word but does not change its
nature. (The construct behaves just as the marked word by itself, though a marked brivla may have an unpredictable place structure.) The two
words are considered distinct for "sa" matching purposes. Multiple BAhE cmavo may be used in succession, and they combine to mark the next non-BAhE word.
- See also ba'e, .ui, sa, "Magic Words".
- Keywords: Nonce-word next, nonce word follows.
(Note: I removed the language about left-to-right magic word resolution. BAhE is not magic so it doesn't seem to fit in the individual word definitions. And it's already mentioned in the Magic Words page.)
3) Magic Words
- Add weasel word to the note about BAhE: s/any/nearly any/
Magic words are all cmavo that have some interaction with words as
words irrespective of the function of those words. These are SI SA SU
ZO ZOI LOhU LEhU ZEI BU and FAhO. (BAhE, even though it can modify nearly any word, is not a magic word, because it doesn't affect the function of the
word it modifies).
If there are no objections, I'll make these changes.
Alex
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, John Cowan wrote:
Alex Burka scripsit:
And the language in "Nonce connectives" should definitely be unified --
either we say {ba'e} and {za'e} both "bind" with the following word,
or neither of them do, plus the definition for {za'e} has points about
{sa} and left-to-right magic word resolution that should be in both
definitions assuming they are correct.
On reflection I was wrong to say ba'e is not at all magic; it is semi-magic
like UI and COI words.
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