X-Digest-Num: 220 Message-ID: <44114.220.1191.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:43:35 +0300 From: Robin Turner Subject: years as dates X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1191 Content-Length: 974 Lines: 35 coi rodoi The convention for {detri} is that if there is only one number in x1, it is the day of the month (at least according to the draft textbook - others have suggested reversing the dating order). However, how can we say when, for example, Columbus discovered the New World, without giving the day as well as the year, or putting in a load of {pi'e}s? lenu la kolumbus. facki le cnino gugde se detri li pavosore would mean that he discovered America on the 1492nd day, rather than in the year 1492. Would something like {la pavosorenanc.} clear this up? {ta'o} I left {le cnino gugde} deliberately vague to avoid confusion/argument about what he really did discover! Another question - I've always used the question word {ma} with {detri} and {tcika}, since although the normal x1 is a number (implying {xo} as the question), the place seems also capable of taking cmene, as in la pacac. cu tcika ti or la padjed. cu detri ti co'o mi'e robin.