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BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:18:29PM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org
wrote:
>
> Arnt has a good thing going here. But (in no particular order):

Eep. Bit late, isn't it?

> 1. In the section on how "bu" combines (or not), it's missing that
> it doesn't combine with "bu". In fact, the parser spits out "ky
> bu bu" as an error. But The Book says (page 416): 'It is also
> illegal to attach "bu" to itself, but more than one "bu" may
> attach to a word". This is a disagreement that needs to be
> addressed.

I would be willing to bet that that's supposed to be "but *no* more
than". Otherwise it would be rather strange English (as written,
that should be an 'and' and not a 'but').

Note that the parser *does* accept 'bu bu'.

-Robin

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