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From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> What about "du"? According to the cmavo list, it's in selma'o GOhA, but the 
> only difference between GOhA and BRIVLA is that GOhA can be followed by ra'o, 
> and "du ra'o" doesn't make sense. So could "du" be said to be in selma'o 
> BRIVLA?


Originally "du" was in its own selma'o, DU, and was permitted only

as a selbri_B_132 (IIRC). But I somewhat hastily over-generalized it
into selma'o GOhA, thus permitting some highly dubious constructs like
tanru with du.

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