From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 25 18:35:25 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19VLfZ-0003yY-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:35:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:35:25 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates Message-ID: <20030626013525.GP31328@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20030625165511.048d5dcf.rizen@surreality.us> <20030626012738.78769.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626012738.78769.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 392 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, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:27:38PM -0700, Travis Garris wrote: > I don't mind big endian when writing the date or time down in a > short hand manner. In a conversational context, however, how > would you say "June 25th" or "the 25th of June". Using Nick's method (see my last post), that would be detri fa li remu pi'e xa > What I'm trying to get is the Lojban equivalent of "Today is > Wednesday, the 25th of June." le cabdei cu se detri li remu pi'e xa gi'e cibdei That last bit being the "Wednesday" part, and is probably a bit non-standard. > I could be cold or formal and say "25 June 2003" or "2003/06/25". If you want the names of the months, that's a *whole* different story. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui