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Re: [lojban] guhek brain damage
At 12:08 AM 07/08/2001 -0700, Nick Nicholas wrote:
I've just found out that gek allows non-logical connectives, but guhek
doesn't:
gek = [SE] GA [NAI] # | joik GI # | stag gik
guhek = [SE] GUhA [NAI] #
All right, what's your excuse?
It's been a long time, but I suspect that allowing forethought GI in guheks
would lead to ambiguity, the most obvious case being with a bare selbri, so
that joik gi would not tell you whether it was leading in to a sentence
connection or a selbri internal connection.
The two constructions with "gi" were late additions that strained the
language to its limit.
lojbab
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