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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:17:43PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > But your question reminds me of why Cowan and I decided that ZEI
> > shouldn't act on ZEI: there's no obvious choice for whether to
> > group left or group right. Thanks.
>
> Why isn't order of appearance the obvious choice?
>
> {zo zo} works by order of appearance.
> {zoi zoi} works by order of appearance.
> {lo'u lo'u} works by order of appearance.

Those do, yes.

> {si si} works by order of appearance.

No, it's a string that deletes the two previous words.

> {bu bu} works by order of appearance, in a way.

No, it's an error, at least by the beginning of text.

> How come {zei zei} is the exception?

It's hardly the only one.

The problem is, if you want to say "I said a zei lujvo", we have:

{mi pu cusku lo zei zei lujvo}

or something.

The problem is that if we take it by order of appearence, as you
say, the first zei grabs the lo and the second zei, so we end up
with "I was a speaker type-of lo type of zei type of lujvo".

-Robin