From sentto-44114-2711-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri May 12 23:38:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 2887 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 23:38:08 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 12 May 2000 23:38:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 27214 invoked by uid 40001); 12 May 2000 23:38:32 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 27211 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 23:38:32 -0000 Received: from fj.egroups.com (208.50.144.72) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 12 May 2000 23:38:32 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2711-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.35] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 12 May 2000 23:38:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 8469 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 23:38:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 23:38:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Zeke.Update.UU.SE) (130.238.11.14) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 23:38:29 -0000 Received: (from thorild@localhost) by Zeke.Update.UU.SE (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02914; Sat, 13 May 2000 01:38:27 +0200 Message-Id: <200005122338.BAA02914@Zeke.Update.UU.SE> To: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000512183902.00a6d4d0@127.0.0.1> References: <4.2.2.20000512183902.00a6d4d0@127.0.0.1> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under Emacs 20.2.2 From: Thorild Selen MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 01:38:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) writes: > Not likely if we are talking dates. If the listener only wants the century, > then giving the date to any greater significance is drowning him in > irrelevance. This brings up another interesting question; how should you specify a century? In English, you usually say "the 18:th century" where a Swede would say "the 1700:s". I admit that the second version is somewhat ambigous, since it could possibly be intended to mean only the years 1700-1709, but, on the other hand, the n:th century style seems kind of off by one, and therefore causes confusion among those who aren't used to it; also, it doesn't look a bit like how you talk about decades in any language that I know, and to be consistent with that style you'd possibly have to consider talking about, for example, the 171:th decade. Does anyone have a good suggestion for how to talk about centuries and decades in lojban? /Thorild ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @Backup- Protect and Access your data any time, any where on the net. Try @Backup FREE and recieve 300 points from mypoints.com Install now: http://click.egroups.com/1/2345/3/_/17627/_/958174710/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com