Re: Numeral strings: we need your help!

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I vote for your position on strings like repai.
I vote that {zei} be deallocated, and the space given to one of the currently
deallocated cmavo.
In contrast to your position on {repai}, though, and after initial opposition,
I do support the oddity {ropa}, and in general the concatenation of "adjective
PA" and "digit PA", for pragmatic reasons, even though {rolopa} is the
actual meaning (ropamei *is* handy; in fact, I came up with it independently;
it's a bad thing to have a backlog, friend). Similarly for du'e, mo'a etc.

As a whole Lojban's PA grammeme is an odd collection, with few analogies in
the world's languages. Forms like {ropa} are *not* obvious, and require
explanation in any presentation such as you're doing.

Nick.