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Re: [lojban] -bom-/-nom- & KE
> Well, first of all, -bom- and -nom- work as opening and closing brackets, the only difference being that they do something to the enclosed stuff. This is one clue it could be KE.
I agree that they /could/ be. I just did not see why they /must/ be. If you are simply proposing that such would be the most natural (but not sole possible) fit for them, then I can proceed.
> Then, they can be skipped at the beginning or end. Try to do that with NU
"nunsla" skips "-kez-" at the end (well, it would not be possible in that form - it would have to be " zei kei", but that does not matter here).
Inserting "-kez-" between rafsi without a NU rafsi previous to it in the same word has undefined result, although it may or may not be grammatical. I suppose that it could imply "-suv-" at some indeterminate point in the word beforehand (or maybe only at the beginning; possibly, we maybrequire at least one other rafsi to be between "-suv-" and "-kez-"), but then that kind of introduces implicit NU throughout the language via the veljvo, and that gets messy.
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