From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 14 19:27:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 02:27:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 89361 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 02:24:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 02:24:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 02:24:05 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15i57g-0001Ic-00 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:24:00 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:24:00 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e Message-ID: <20010914192400.Y31454@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10740 On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:05:50PM -0700, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > > cu'u la pc. > > >And the whole point is that we are much more likely to want to talk about > >a day in this month than a year all by itself, > > ??!! > > You people really thought that?! > > I'm speechless. > > So, I'm unlikely to say I was born in 1971. I am far likelier to say I was > born on the 29th. Right. > > I'm looking forward to the Lojban History of the Crusades, where > everything will be dated by default to the day of the month... Uhh, maybe you're a professional historian or something, but in my normal, day-to-day life I would say that I discuss dates by day of the month about 100x more than by year. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/