Number subgrammar
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> Robin:
> > > So you would not want to allow, for example {li paso pi'e mi'u
> > > pamu} for "a quarter to seven"?
> >
> > Did you mean ni'u there?
>
> Yes, sorry.
>
> > I have no problems with that; numbers in any base boil down to
> > <number> mod <base>, and that's what negative numbers do in a module
> > context.
>
> But {ni'u} normally applies to the whole string of digits, just like
> {pi}. If you allow {ni'u} for a single digit, why not {pi} as well?
I guess we can't allow that, then, without using jo'i.
-Robin