From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 04 14:58:28 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ84R-000826-II for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:58:28 -0700 Received: from mx.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.19] helo=sdf.lonestar.org ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ84O-00081z-DL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:58:27 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m74LwLvW008844 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:58:21 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.12.8/Submit) id m74LwL7u025682 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:58:21 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Times and Dates Message-ID: <20080804215819.GA5922@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <488CA6FA.1020202@gmail.com> <513674.83343.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <513674.83343.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 782 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 03 pi'e 08 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Fiat Knox .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > Is there a standard way of telling times, dates and similar > in Lojban? > > Specifically, is there a standard accepted by this group as > the "default" way of saying "It's the seventeenth of September?" .skamyxatra I believe that you simply use "{detri}" or "{tcika}" with the date in x1, optionally modified by the tense marker "{ca}." For your example, this would be "{li paze pi'e so ca detri}." mu'omi'e la'o gy. Minimiscience .gy. -- mi pu klama .i mi pu viska .i mi pu fanva fi la lojban.