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Magic Words: left-to-right

posts: 1912

Robin:
> I'm really not happy with BAhE. It's too hard to get out of using SI, and
> you can't return to it with SA.

SA could return to it. That's really independent of left-to-right processing,
it's just a matter of defining what SA can see, and I don't see any reason
why SA shouldn't see it. I was confused about that before because I thought
BAhE was a magic word, but it is not, so SA should see it. What I think SA
should not see is words that are treated as "any-word" by magic words,
because those words are not really playing their role as selmaho members,
they are not fulfilling their function, and the point of the word after
SA is to replace a word that fills the same function.

As for SI, I don't find any compelling reason why BAhE should surrender
its natural (just because it comes first) precedence to it.

> Furthermore, BAhE and UI are handled
> differently.

That's inevitable, because one acts on what follows and the other on
what precedes. {zo} and {bu} present similar differences, for example,
for the same reason.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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