From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 12:49:23 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:49:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ctu6M-0005IX-Vt for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:49:23 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:49:22 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years Message-ID: <20050126204922.GJ20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20050126194917.GW20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> 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: 1071 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, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:38:51PM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > > > (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"? > > 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. Ah. I find that ugly as hell, but I'd still understand you. -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/