[lojban] Re: Opinions, please: SA by structure

["Adam D. Lopresto" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> You could also (probably; we haven't hashed this out yet) do {mi
> vecnu do lo cukta sa da sa lo cukta do}, effictively counting back
> two terms, but I don't actually expect anyone to do this.  "da" was
> used as "any term" there.

I don't see how that would work.  It looks to me like the first {sa da} would
strip out {lo cukta} and replace it with {da}, leaving {mi vecnu do da}, then
the next {sa lo cukta} would turn it into {mi vecnu do lo cukta}, and then a
final {do} for {mi vecnu do lo cukta do}.
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