Re: [jboske] Why do we need zi'e?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> I don't see what zi'e can do that ku'o and ge'u can't. And since
> zi'e was a late addition and is its own selmaho, I am wondering if
> there is some crucial parsing issue that I am overlooking that
> makes zi'e necessary.

In fact zi'e was not a late addition: it was removing the previous
meanings of zi'a (OR), zi'o (IFF), and zi'u (WHETHER OR NOT) that
was fairly late. I argued successfully that only zi'e deserved to
survive. It didn't occur to me or anyone else that removing it
in favor of null would even be possible.

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