Re: [lojban] sivni jikca

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

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 07:54:44PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > ta'o stidi lu ve cu'u li'u .i mi pu ze'a cando gi'e ku'i ka'e
> > cusku fo la .mumbl. .i ku'i .u'u mi sisti .i mi troji jai
> > krefu[1]
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> > [1]: Being able to do "again" as a tense is Very Much on the
> > CLLv2.0 or 2.1 list; does this seem like a reasonable shorthand?
> 
> "za'u [pa] re'u" = "not for the first time" = "again".

No, that's "for the more than oneth time"; it applies to *every*
time except the first.  I want "nexth" not "greater than oneth".
The second time is {za'u re'u}, but so is the thousandth; it needs
to be relative to whatever the current counter is, and we don't have
a "current number" in PA.

> lo nu za'u re'u broda = lo krefu be lo nu broda bei li za'u

.ie .i ku'i mi djica le balvi lamji krefu po'o .e nai ro krefu be fi
le za'u

-Robin

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