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RE: [jboske] ke'a/ce'u subscripting



pc:
> a.rosta@hidden.email writes:
> <<
> were we doing
> LoCCan3 I'd have certain suggestions involving backcounting, by
> way of being the least bad solution.
> >>
> Except in the case of {ce'u} I fall back on "repetition is also 
> anaphora" 

Me being such an anglophone, I have problems with that maxim,
since it doesn't apply to English at all.

> and for {ce'u} in LoCCan3, I would make it a real lambda -- 
> a sumti-forming operator with one bound term taking -- under 
> unlimited iteration -- a bridi.  So that {le du'u ceu' broda ceu} 
> would be {ce'u da ce'u de da broda de} or so -- longer but clearer, 
> and capable of taking on multiple occurrences of a single {ce'u}.

You could create an experimental Lojban cmavo for lambda (e.g. 
ce'au, in PA), if you were convinced there was a need. 

--And.