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Re: [lojban] A set of questions
- To: lojban@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [lojban] A set of questions
- From: cmeclax po'u le cmevi'u ke'umri <cmeclax@ixazon.dynip.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:12:37 -0400
- In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20010411141032.00b74560@127.0.0.1>
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de'i Wed, 11 Apr 2001 la lojbab cusku di'e
li'o
> >12) Why is there no generic way to say "during the next occurence of X"? I
> >think using ca le bavlamdei is quite ugly, especially when you want to do
> >some more complex things, like next week, next week+3 days, in 2 days, 4
> >days ago, ...? I'd expect there to be a cmavo stating "N occurences of X
> >from now" or something.
>
> That's what we do in natural languages, which apparently have never found a
> need for a short or pretty form. Jorge has suggested one way, another
> would be bajoiPAre'u or something like that
I translated "for each of the last twelve days" as "roda poi su'e pare nilpru
djedi" - is that good?
cmeclax
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