Re: [jboske] multiple membership of terminator selmaho (was: RE: "goi'a"

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> Fair enough. But all the parser needs to know is the selmaho, no?

Well, in one sense. But the whole idea of *elidable* terminators is
that they can be elided because one (a parser or a human being) can
reconstruct the unique (sequence of) terminators that are missing.
If there is more than one cmavo in an elidable-terminator selma'o, this
is not possible: does

le broda [] cu brode

mean

le broda ku cu brode

or

le broda goi'a cu brode

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