WikiDiscuss

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> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:28:35AM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> > I think {su} should always erase to the beginning of the
> > utterance.
>
> s/utterance/text/, no?

Is there a difference?

text can be confused with the text rule. Erasing the current
"text" in the rule sense is more or less what SU does now,
because LU, TUhE and TO take a text (or something like it).
(NIhO not quite.)

> > 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.

Yes, I'm not saying: It is redundant, therefore I suggest we
change it.

I'm saying: It is too complicated, therefore I suggest we change
it, and since it is redundant anyway, we don't lose anything.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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