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Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:28:35AM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:

> >
> > I don't agree with this rule. It is usually hard enough to locate
> > the last member of the selma'o of the following word. Counting
> > sa's and then counting back for members of a given selma'o seems
> > totally undoable. sa sa should behave as expected: looks for
> > previous occurence of sa, doesn't find any and therefore deletes
> > to the beginning of the text, like sa si and sa su.

On this view, the second "sa" is effectively quoted rather than interpreted,
but normally the word after "sa" is to be interpreted.

> Disagreement noted. I don't much care, although I mildly prefer it
> as is.

I think the most reasonable thing is either the existing rule or to ignore
additional sa's.

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