From sentto-44114-3462-962984565-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri Jul 07 15:40:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 15945 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 15:40:57 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 15:40:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 18633 invoked by uid 40001); 7 Jul 2000 15:42:51 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 18630 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 15:42:50 -0000 Received: from fk.egroups.com (208.50.144.73) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 15:42:50 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3462-962984565-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by fk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2000 15:42:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 2582 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 15:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 15:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 15:42:42 -0000 Received: from m75-mp1-cvx1c.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.12.75] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 13Aa7y-00007w-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 16:33:18 +0100 To: Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000706022229.32729.qmail@hotmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" 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: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:42:35 +0100 Subject: RE: li [date] (was: RE: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jorge: > coi ui doi and ki'e [I mean to say "thank you", not "mi na jimpe"] > > > {li 2000;05;07} can be nothing but May 7th of this year, > > > >In any context, or as a date sumti of certain predicates? > > I think I meant it as a date. Given the two choices YYYYMMDD > and DDMMYYYY it could not be doubted which convention was > being used. > > >Presumably the latter. I presume "ca li 2000;05;07" is > >nonsense? If so, what is the concisest way to rephrase it > >sensically? > > {de'i li 2000;05;07} in this case. > > However, {co'a de'i li 2000;05;07} doesn't work, it > breaks as {co'a ku de'i li 2000;05;07}. > > Maybe {co'a ko'a goi de'i li 2000;05;07}. > > But I won't complain at {co'a li 2000;05;07}. What else > could it mean? Would you complain at {co'a li 2000}? I presume the reason for you not complaining is that it is unlikely to be misunderstood, rather than that it makes literal sense. --And. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find long lost high school friends: http://click.egroups.com/1/5535/4/_/17627/_/962984565/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com