[lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?

[Zefram <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>If "y" is a word, it should be quotable with "zo",
>lerfuable with "bu", lujvoable with "zei",
>erasable with "si" and emphasizable with "ba'e",
>like any other word.

Is "si" a word?  It satisfies some of these criteria but not all.
I think "y" should be in the same category as "si".

What you define above is actually a word-that-survives-pre-processing,
for which we don't have a convenient name.  "si" is not that type of word,
nor is "y".

-zefram