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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:39:48 +0100
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On Wednesday 26 January 2005 14:31, Betsemes wrote:
> 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 <number>" 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).

You could use nanca, but you haven't learned how to use it. Keep on learning.