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And Rosta scripsit:
> Are there specific rules or principles that have been flouted,
> or are you using "cheated" in a vague sense of "mabla"?
The principle in this case is that an elidable terminator selma'o ought
not to have more than one cmavo in it, because then it is impossible to
reconstruct what cmavo should appear when filling in elisions. This
was discovered back when TO and TOI had two members each, one meaning ( ) and
one meaning [ ], before sa'a was devised.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@hidden.email>
"Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram
that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
as any, even sans digital signature." --me