From betsemes@hotmail.com Wed Jan 26 05:38:32 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bay23-dav12.bay23.hotmail.com ([64.4.22.192] helo=hotmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CtnNQ-0004hW-RI for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:38:32 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:38:00 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 65.218.132.157 by BAY23-DAV12.phx.gbl with DAV; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:37:23 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.218.132.157] X-Originating-Email: [betsemes@hotmail.com] X-Sender: betsemes@hotmail.com From: "Betsemes" To: "Lojban Beginners List" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Single numbers as years Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:31:54 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jan 2005 13:38:00.0599 (UTC) FILETIME=[40C75270:01C503AC] X-archive-position: 1057 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: betsemes@hotmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners In chapter 5 of Lojban for Beginners, this comment is written: "More recently there has been a proposal to make single numbers refer by default to year rather than day; the controversy on this has not settled down yet." This refers to the construct expressed as "li " which in case of dates refers to the day of month. I guess that this proposal could have some time of having been proposed so I want to know what have been decided about this if anything. (If my opinion counts and it maybe doesn't; I don't like those irregularities in programming languages, much worse is the case in human languages. I prefer to use cmene for years).