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BPFK Section: Nonce Connectives

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 05:48:48PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:47:31PM -0500, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> > Jorge "Llamb??as" wrote:
> >
> > >--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>OK, cool. I'm going with "Multiple BAhE cmavo may be used in
> > >>succession, in which case they all affect the next non-BAhE
> > >>word.", then.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >What if you want to mark a new BAhE as nonce? :-)
> > >
> > >(Actually, there was at some point talk about an experimental
> > >BAhE that meant "what follows continues the utterance of the
> > >previous speaker, even though I'm a new speaker".)
> >
> > Why should that be a BAhE and not a UI?
>
> Because UI binds to the left, and one would want to use this word
> to start a new sentence.

If we needed such a thing (and IMO we don't; that's what leaving off
".i" is for) it should either be a member of I or just ".i se'i
nai".

-Robin