[lojban] cu-alike for other situations

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

Something that I and some others have talked about on IRC a few
times is "Wow, cu is pretty useful when deeply nested; wouldn't it
be nice to have something like that that could work in other places
besides before the selbri?".

This turns out to be surprisingly tricky; many ideas have been shown
to be unworkable.

I think I might finally have something: mark FA as needing
terminator closure before it.  Example:

mi denpa le nu do xruti fi le nu zutse

vs.

mi denpa le nu do xruti cu fi le nu zutse

"cu fi" means "close terminators, at least one, until a fi is
allowed".  More than one cu would be allowed there, with the obvious
effect.

Please note that I am NOT attached to "cu" here; a postfix new cmavo
(i.e. "fi xu'u"), or whatever, would be fine.  (IIRC postfix is
easier in terms of grammatical simplicity, but it's been a while).

-Robin

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