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Adam Raizen scripsit: > va'a is only a unary operator, and makes no sense as a binary operator, > so it's pointless to say here that tu'o represents a non-specific or > elliptical number. tu'o is used just in those places where a number is > grammatically required, but none is wanted semantically. Well, that's *one* use of tu'o, but need not be the only use of it. So I think it can serve as zo'e as well as zi'o. -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale." (Kryten, Red Dwarf)