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xorxes:
> la and cusku di'e
>
> >Ah, and in that case "My heart beats 100 times a minute" (which doesn't
> >mean "Everything is such that either it is not a minute or my heart beats
> >100 times during it") could be said as:
> >
> > bikla fa le mi risna ze'a da pa no no roi ro mentu pe da
> >
> >-- I think that finally that solves it. It would be nice to do
> >better than {pe}, though. Would {be ca da} work, so as to be
> >more explicit?
>
> No, the x2 of mentu is the number of minutes in interval x1
> (default 1). To be more explicit we can say:
>
> bikla fa le mi risna ze'a da pa no no roi ro mentu poi da kuspe ke'a
Yes, I see that you're right.
Now it should be possible to define a tense cmavo in ROI in such a
way that {PA <tag> <sumti>} means
"ze'a da PA roi <sumti> poi da kuspe ke'a"
or
"ze'a da PA roi ro se ckaji be <sumti> be'o poi da kuspe ke'a"
... which would basically give us a cmavo meaning "n times per x".
--And.