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As for overspecificity, when compared to the tenses of ta'e or the variants of nu, I hardly think that charge sticks.
I confess I was never able to tell the difference between ta'e and na'o, but other than that I don't think they are overspecific. My comment about overspecific had to do with why linear and exponential specifically. What about quadratic, cubic, other powers, tangential, sinusoidal, and so many other possible rates of variation? Are linear and exponential all that special?
We can use tenses like xoi'a, but if we had numbers (the sort of pseudo-digits unique to Lojban, like du'e) that signalled different types of increase, this could be a more general solution. If xoi'a'a meant linear increase, then mi ja'a xi xoi'a'a plana (my obesity increases linearly)
It can't do that for very long though, assuming obesity is proportional to weight. If it isn't, then saying that increase is linear is meaningless unless we know what the scale is. My objection is that "linearly" does not tell me much here. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com