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Re:tags as connectives

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The issue of the order of sentences around connectives — relative to the order around the "corresponding selbri" (that there always is one is suspect in many cases) is as old as Loglan. The order for the causal/inferential connectives changed several times in printed Loglan text, mainly as the translation of the connectives moved between "because" (which has a certain naturalness from "cause") and "hence/therefore/thus" which seemed to fit the order better.

The argument always brought came back to the order of the underlying predicate, though I don't remember what it was most recently in Loglan. Of course, the predicates do not keep the corresponding orders completely, so that aargument may collapse a bit — and some are personal rather than formal, I seem to recall.
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