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[lojban] Re: Double-checking: "bu bu"
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:32:30AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > I am, of course, more than happy to be overruled by the BPFK when it
> > gets to the various words in question.
>
> Perhaps we should revisit at some point the definition approved for
> "bu":
>
> 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, BAhE, or FAhO. [...]
/kick self
I completely forgot to check the new definitions.
Fixed.
As an obvious side-effect, zoi bu ... bu is valid (as I assume was the
commissioner's intention).
Similarily, "bu zei bu" now works, which (unlike zoi bu ... bu) might
actually be useful for naming really wierd letters using CMENE ZEI BU.
> I understand {zo y bu si si da} reduces to {zo da}. Does {zo y bu si
> da} reduce to {zo y da}, i.e. {zo da} too?
You never let up, do you? :-)
No, it does not, because that would require a single SI to erase both BU
and Y.
-Robin
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