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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:42:51AM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> mi viska le bruna be la djan sa tirna by
>
> I saw John's brother, I mean, heard him.
>
> (Whether pronouns will work like this is a separate issue.
> The point here is that tirna replaces {viska}, not {bruna},
> because it is a bridi-tail.)

Erm, isn't bruna too?

Oh, no, it's a sumti-tail. OK. I find that a little bizarre (that
a BRIVLA wouldn't SA back to the previous BRIVLA) but of course I'm
used to the old way.

> I would have SA simply ignore free modifiers and indicators.

By which you mean that it ignores them looking forward for things to
match?

mi viska le bruna be la djan sa sei mi nelci se'u le broda

==

mi viska le bruna be le broda

?

Seems that if it ignores them in searching forward for things to
match is equivalent to erasing them.

-Robin

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