From betsemes@hotmail.com Wed Jan 26 12:45:32 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:45:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from bay23-dav18.bay23.hotmail.com ([64.4.22.198] helo=hotmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctu2e-0005Dk-LT for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:45:32 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:45:01 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 65.218.132.157 by BAY23-DAV18.phx.gbl with DAV; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:44:19 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.218.132.157] X-Originating-Email: [betsemes@hotmail.com] X-Sender: betsemes@hotmail.com From: "Betsemes" To: References: <20050126194917.GW20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:38:51 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jan 2005 20:45:01.0265 (UTC) FILETIME=[E7E2B410:01C503E7] X-archive-position: 1070 X-Approved-By: betsemes@hotmail.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: betsemes@hotmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > > (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"? > > -Robin > Chapter 5, Dates section reads this way: Begin of quote: The gismu for 'year', nanca cannot be used instead of detri, since it has the place-structure x1 is x2 years in duration, by standard x3 i.e. it gives the length of an event in years, not the year when an event happened. One way out is to use a cmene for the year, so the year I (Robin) am writing this would be la pasososonanc. (And the year I (Nick) am writing this would be la renonopananc..) Tip: You will also see year names ending in nan: la renonopanan. End of quote.