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Magic Words

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:58:07AM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> >There are other issues I have with FAhO, though.
> >
> >1) If we really need such a metagrammatical word for
> >end-of-parsable-input, how come a corresponding word for
> >beginning-of-parsable-input is not needed?
>
> I think {su} serves that purpose. Anything at all is allowed
> before it, and ignored as far as the parser is concerned. Or is
> that not the case?

It is not. The text before su must still be Lojban; the text after
fa'o contains no such restriction.

-Robin