Re: [jboske] tu'o (was: lo'edu'u)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Adam Raizen scripsit:

> va'a is only a unary operator, and makes no sense as a binary operator,
> so it's pointless to say here that tu'o represents a non-specific or
> elliptical number. tu'o is used just in those places where a number is
> grammatically required, but none is wanted semantically. 

Well, that's *one* use of tu'o, but need not be the only use of it.
So I think it can serve as zo'e as well as zi'o.

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