From sentto-44114-2660-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Thu May 11 22:26:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 1301 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 22:26:05 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 11 May 2000 22:26:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 18541 invoked by uid 40001); 11 May 2000 22:26:19 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 18538 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 22:26:18 -0000 Received: from jj.egroups.com (208.50.144.82) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 11 May 2000 22:26:18 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2660-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.35] by jj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 20510 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qh.egroups.com) (10.1.2.28) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 11863 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 Received: from n9.onelist.org (HELO fl.egroups.com) (10.1.10.48) by iqh.egroups.com with SMTP; 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: jjllambias@hotmail.com Received: from [10.1.10.116] by fl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2000 20:55:17 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Message-ID: <8ff6nh+6i5h@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000511053858.00aca240@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "Jorge Llambias" 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: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:55:13 -0000 Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit la lojbab cusku di'e > ONE part of the language has leftward expansion. > All the rest is rightward. The two aspects most relevant to dates have leftward expansion: numbers (the integer part) and tanru. Numbers are ordered most significant digit to least significant digit, with zeroes elided from both ends. If we were to use leftward expansion for numbers then {li pareci} would be three hundred and twenty-one. I think that is what has the most relevance to dates. The order for numbers is: .... hundreds, tens, units,., tenths, hundredths .... with elisions at both ends. It makes a lot of sense to use the same method for dates because they are exactly the same type of object in Lojban, a li-sumti. If we use a tanru to express a date it has to be something like: {le 2000moi nanca ke 5moi masti ke 11moi djedi} There is no way that you can put the year as the tertau to single out one day. co'o mi'e xorxes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WRITERS WANTED! Themestream allows ALL writers to publish their articles on the Web, reach thousands of interested readers, and get paid in cash for their work. Click below: http://click.egroups.com/1/3840/3/_/17627/_/958078517/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com