Re: TECH (naive)

[John Cowan <cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan@UUNET.UU.NET>]

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> If
>   se  gives  x2 x1 x3
>   te  gives  x3 x2 x1
> then is it the case that
>   se te  gives  x2 x3 x1
>   te se  gives  x3 x1 x2
> and
>   te se te  and  se te se  both give  x1 x3 x2
> ?

Yes, on all counts.  In practice, the only use of iterated SE is of the
form "setese", and then only very rarely.  The x1 place has special
significance in Lojban because of its use in descriptions, but there is
little benefit to building selbri with the other places scrambled.

For mere expression of the sumti in a non-standard order, without affecting
the selbri semantics, use the numeric place tags fa, fe, fi, fo, fu.

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