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> SA should be able to back to the last BAhE, IMO.

It's not a big deal. What exactly is the grammar
of SA anyway? Is it something like:

KOhA' = KOhA sa-KOhA / KOhA
sa-KOhA = SA KOhA / any-word sa-KOhA

?

> Hmmm. What does "sa zo ba'e" do in your interpretation? Or "sa zo"
> in general, for that matter.

Goes back to the last ZO. SA should see preceding magic words, it just
doesn't see the "any-word" part. (It shouldn't see any preceding SI,
SA or SU though, so {sa si}, {sa sa}, or {sa su} would take you to
the beginning of text.)

> > BAhE
> > is very sui generis in the language.
>
> So is BU.

After writing that, I realized that BAhE is not that sui generis
after all. SA has the same behaviour of BAhE with respect to
the word that follows: it works with it but does not change
its function. SA is of course more complicated than BAhE because
it also deals with preceding words, but in its dealings with the
following word they are the much same.

BU is just like ZEI in its dealings with the preceding word.

> I really don't like SA not being able to back into BAhE, but it's a
> minor thing.

I'd like to understand a bit better the formal grammar
of SA and BAhE before commiting one way or the other.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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