From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Fri Jun 27 16:20:45 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lmout01.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.120]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19W2WL-0006t4-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:20:45 -0700 Received: from lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.66]) by lmout01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D95E20352 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:20:12 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F95C263F for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:20:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lmsmtp01.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.111]) by localhost (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.66]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01013-01 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:20:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from oemcomputer (host81-7-56-34.surfport24.v21.co.uk [81.7.56.34]) by lmsmtp01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07FE1E784 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:20:11 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <002f01c33d02$a93ecd00$22380751@oemcomputer> From: "And Rosta" To: References: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:16:22 +0100 Organization: Livagian Consulate MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-archive-position: 396 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: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > As it is, we treat 1 and 2 digit years specially in English > specially anyway; people might say "in 555, Justinian invaded", but > they almost always speak of "in 43 AD" rather than "in 43, Claudius > acceeded to the throne" --- precisely because that would be ambiguous > in English with (19)43. Nick, nobody is going think that Claudius acceded to the throne in 1943, except for some of my students. ("Napoleon invaded England in 1066") --And.