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Re: TECH: new cmavo "ju'e"
>Wow, I hadn't thought of this before -- I had thought the different kinds of
>connector were inconveniences bemu'i YACCability. Interesting.
They were, BUT were not the only possible solution. The precedent was set by
JCB who has had a JA/A distinction in the language since well before anyone
tried to YACC a grammar.
The other way we considered was a simple cmavo determining type of connective
followed by only one "series", probably JA. This is in effect what we did
for termsets, with NUhU+connective. If we had gone fully to that system, we
would have used up fewer cmavo, but the solution we chose was more in keeping
with JCB's design philosophy.
lojbab