BPFK Section: Erasures
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:28:35AM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
>su (SU) Erase previous discourse. Erases all words back to the
> beginning of the discourse or text. More precisely, "su" erases
> back to the previous word of selma'o NIhO, LU, TUhE, or TO.>
> I disagree with this rule.
It's from the CLL.
> I think {su} should always erase to the beginning of the
> utterance.
s/utterance/text/, no?
> We already have {sa ni'o}, {sa lu}, {sa tu'e}, {sa to} for the
> other function, the extra syllable or two is hardly a problem for
> this rather drastic and hopefully rare function. Having to keep
> these four selmaho especially identified for su-purposes is an
> unnecessary burden on the listener.
Umm, except that {su} as you've described it is redundant with {sa
si} and {sa su}.
So there's redundancy either way.
-Robin