From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sat Dec 15 13:01:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 15 Dec 2001 21:01:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 65729 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2001 21:01:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Dec 2001 21:01:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n4.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.54) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2001 21:01:12 -0000 Received: from [216.115.96.35] by n4.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Dec 2001 21:01:11 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:01:11 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Year-only Dates Message-ID: <9vgdmn+hi7t@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <01121512142509.04582@neofelis> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 730 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "aolung" X-Originating-IP: 149.225.136.32 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=37407270 X-Yahoo-Profile: aolung X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12633 --- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2001 08:41, aolung wrote: > > --- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > le djedi xamoi be le mlajukma'i be le renonopamoi nanca be'o be'o noi > > > jimdei > > > > Could you explain the grammatical structure to me - and forgive my > > denseness? (Can the x2 of {xamoi} be filled with the "cancer-month" - which > > is not a set (x2) of months, but itself a member of this set. Also, > > mlajukma'i = masti: x1 is x2 months in duration - can x2 be {nanca}? > > Shouldn't it contain just a number, e.g. like {li pare}?) > > x2 of {xamoi} is a month, regarded as a set of days. Oh yes, of course, thanks. ki'emi'e .aulun.