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John: > 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 Fair enough. But all the parser needs to know is the selmaho, no? I.e. that it is a KU Phrase. The parser doesn't *need* to know the actual word. In principle, I mean; I don't really know or care about how the actual working parser works (which is not to say that I am not glad it exists). --And.