From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 12:06:01 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:06:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CttQP-0004c4-Fs for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:06:01 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:06:01 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years Message-ID: <20050126200601.GF20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20050126194917.GW20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1069 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 09:03:21PM +0100, Rapha?l Poss wrote: > > Le 26 janv. 05, ? 20:49, Robin Lee Powell a ?crit : > > pa pi'e re pi'e pa ki'o > > -- "the first of February of 2000" > > pa ki'o > > -- "the year 2000" > > pa ki'o pi'e ci > > -- "March of the year 2000" > > pa ki'o pi'e ci pi'e vo > > -- "the 4th of March of the year 2000" > > > > s/pa ki'o/re ki'o/ (it's 2000 not 1000) Or s/2000/1000/g :-) > Hence: > > pa pi'e re pi'e re ki'o > re ki'o > re ki'o pi'e ci > re ki'o pi'e ci pi'e vo Right. > >>(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). > > > >Umm, huh? How would you use cmene for years, exactly? > >"panononos"? > > renononos ? Hmm, let's see... > > {mi ba cliva ca la reki'on} > > ... why not. Because I don't like overloading of cmene. -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/