From ptg_thug@yahoo.com Wed Jun 25 09:40:22 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13004.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.14]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19VDJm-0000JE-00 for lojban-beginners@digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:40:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20030625164020.60358.qmail@web13004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [138.163.0.41] by web13004.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:40:20 PDT Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:40:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Travis Garris Subject: [lojban-beginners] Dates To: lojban-beginners@digitalkingdom.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 385 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: ptg_thug@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners I was trying to make a simple, little date clock for my desktop, something to put more lojban in my environment to help memorize things. As a result, I want it to be in text, not in numbers. So I want "the 25 of June" instead of "6/25" (or "25/6"). So I have "remu pe'i xa". I'd like to use "xavmast", but I'm not sure how to phrase that. "remu pe'i xavmast"? How do I add Wednesday ("cibdjed") to that? As I'm looking over times, I found something that bothers me. I figured I'd ask incase I'm just misunderstanding. "papa pe'i pa": Is that 11:01 or January 11? That depends on where it is used, which is fine. When telling time, it reads hour "pe'i" minute, larger unit "pe'i" smaller unit. When telling the date, it tells day "pe'i" month, smaller unit "pe'i" larger unit. That just sits wrong with me. Travis Garris Norfolk, Va. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com