[lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:38:51PM -0400, Betsemes wrote:
> > > (If my opinion counts and it maybe doesn't; I don't like those
> > > irregularities in programming languages, much worse is the
> > > case in human languages. I prefer to use cmene for years).
> >
> > Umm, huh?  How would you use cmene for years, exactly?
> > "panononos"?
> 
> Chapter 5, Dates section reads this way:
> 
> Begin of quote:
> 
> The gismu for 'year', nanca cannot be used instead of detri, since
> it has the place-structure
>
> x1 is x2 years in duration, by standard x3
>
> i.e. it gives the length of an event in years, not the year when
> an event happened. One way out is to use a cmene for the year, so
> the year I (Robin) am writing this would be la pasososonanc. (And
> the year I (Nick) am writing this would be la renonopananc..)
>
> Tip: You will also see year names ending in nan: la renonopanan.
> 
> End of quote.

Ah.

I find that ugly as hell, but I'd still understand you.

-Robin

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