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[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates
> As it is, we treat 1 and 2 digit years specially in English
> specially anyway; people might say "in 555, Justinian invaded", but
> they almost always speak of "in 43 AD" rather than "in 43, Claudius
> acceeded to the throne" --- precisely because that would be ambiguous
> in English with (19)43.
Nick, nobody is going think that Claudius acceded to the throne in
1943, except for some of my students. ("Napoleon invaded England in
1066")
--And.