Re: [lojban] sivni jikca

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 07:54:44PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>> "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.

Just like "again".

I tried on Monday, then again on Tuesday, and yet again on Wednesday.

> I want "nexth" not "greater than oneth".

"next-th" seems to put an additional focus on the preceding time,
rather than just saying that the time in question is a repetition, not
the original one.

> The second time is {za'u re'u}, but so is the thousandth;

Yes, just like "again".

> it needs
> to be relative to whatever the current counter is, and we don't have
> a "current number" in PA.

Why? "again" doesn't keep track of which time it is, just not the first one.

>> 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

"za'u re'u" only says that the time in question is not the first one.
It is a single time, one other than the first one. You seem to be
saying that it says that the time in question is all times but the
first.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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