From pille@mac.com Wed Sep 03 05:57:40 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 03 Sep 2003 05:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.86]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19uXCe-0004Uu-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 05:57:40 -0700 Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h83CvdKx021547 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (p508e9333.dip.t-dialin.net [80.142.147.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/8.12.9/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h83CvXlc010008 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:57:31 +0200 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: What time is it? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Jan Pilgenroeder To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3F55BF7B.15032.408FDC2@localhost> Message-Id: <2E11417D-DE0E-11D7-BFF5-000393B76BE4@mac.com> X-archive-position: 426 X-Approved-By: pille@mac.com 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: pille@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Am Mittwoch, 03.09.03 um 10:16 Uhr schrieb Philip Newton: coi .filip > How do you ask, "What time is it?" and "What is the date?" ? > > I suppose the gismu are {tcika} and {detri}, but what is the x2? > > {ma tcika ti}, perhaps? I would just do it with any X2-4. {ma tcika} should be sufficient to ask "what's the time?" and when you want to make sure that you are asking about the time for the here and now you could make that {ma cavi tcika}. mu'o mi'e .ian -- Jan Pilgenroeder Theaterstr. 59 52062 Aachen