From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 28 14:26:44 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CueZg-0008O1-0f for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:26:44 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:26:44 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates Message-ID: <20050128222644.GH21766@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: 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: 1084 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 Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:12:53PM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > I've been inquiring deeper into dates. It seems to me that the > whole dates issue is not settle at all and there is no standard > lojbanic grammar for them yet. And there never will be; dates are not something that need there own grammar. There are a variety of usage conventions, however, not all of which are well accepted. > So what is being taught in Lojban for Beginners is not official? There will likely never be an official pronouncment on this point. > I like Nick's proposal too. I think it's elegant, flexible and > simple. There is someone called "xod" proposing some confusing > things that look too wild to me. Things like 9; meaning month are > ugly. Sorry, I agree. I have no idea if xod still cares about this sort of thing; I doubt it. -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/