From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 11:49:57 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:49:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CttAr-0003hv-Uv for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:49:57 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:49:57 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years Message-ID: <20050126194957.GX20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <200501262039.48822.bgeron@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501262039.48822.bgeron@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1062 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:39:48PM +0100, Bram Geron wrote: > 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 " 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. You could have been more useful, and less insulting, by showing him how. {nanca} doesn't solve his problem anyways, because it's about duration, not date. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/