[lojban-beginners] Re: "Once More"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:13:44PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 12/12/05, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
> > I have carefully looked through the chapter 18 of the CLL and to
> > my surprise haven't found any cmavo with the following meanings:
> >
> > "???  preceding ordinal" (like the operator -- of the C)
> >
> > "???  succeeding ordinal"(like the operator ++ of the C)
> >
> > In Peano axioms of arithmetics
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms) the precedence
> > operator is the main tool to construct all natural numbers.
> 
> I'm not sure how necessary it would be to have separate words for
> them, you can always construct them as {su'i pa} and {vu'u pa}.

Not if you want to use it in front of tenses.  The idea would be to
have PA that mean "plus one" and "minus one", analogous to da'a or
za'u, with the current value as the default.

-Robin

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