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A parenthetical is any complete sentence inserted between any two words of another sentence. By "complete sentence" I mean one with an explicit illocutionary operator, otherwise it would not be possible to tell that a new sentence different from the current one is starting. We haven't defined "word" other than by where we are writing spaces, so the words we have so far are: simple-formula, unary-operator, binary-operator, illocutionary-operator and is-called. The precise semantic relationship between the inserted sentence and the matrix sentence is left unspecified. Presumably the speaker has some reason for injecting one sentence within another. Now I would like to introduce a new type of word: an interjection. An interjection is a word that is in itself a complete sentence (i.e. complete with its own illocutionary force). I propose that interjections take form wV (and yV?). For example: wa:= I hereby express that I just realized something. we:= I hereby express that I'm surprized. wi:= I hereby express that I feel good, that I'm happy. wu:= I hereby express that I feel bad. ca'u xa sma, ce'eke tcde, jnve'eka I wonder what, o reader, do you think? ma'a xrxe