[lojban] ge'a usage

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Apropos of very little, it turns out that "ge'a" can be used in
prefix mekso, as well as infix and postfix.  This is important, because
it turns out that "ge'a" can be used almost like "cu"; what it means is
"Look out!  Here comes the next mekso argument!".  "li pi'i re ge'a pa"
is an obviously pointless example (you could use "boi" and save yourself
a syllable), but *believe* *me* when I say that having a cmavo that
*always* means "end the current argument, regardless of terminators" is
very, very nice, for exactly the same reason that being able to use "cu"
instead of whatever terminators one might need in its place is very
nice.

I discovered this whilst reviewing my integral in "What Is Lojban?",
which, by the way, is wrong.  All that has to be done to fix it is put
"vei" after "ri'o", though, because "ge'a" will close even "vei".

-Robin

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