From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 26 14:19:13 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17jRGQ-0005Qs-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:19:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:19:10 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Again/next? Message-ID: <20020826211910.GF20007@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20020826210109.GD20007@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <0208261713590R.03039@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0208261713590R.03039@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 804 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:13:59PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Monday 26 August 2002 17:01, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I just realized I have no idea how to say 'again' as in "I'll read that > > again." or 'next' as in "The next time I'll do better." without using > > brivla. > > > > I'd really like a way to do this in tenses. In fact, I'm stunned to > > find that there are no numbers for more and less. > > {mi za'ure'u tcidu ta}. This construction is used in Alice. I *knew* there was a way! Thank you. I spent like 20 minutes looking for za'u, because I knew it was there somewhere. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/