Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: skina fanva

[MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>]

xorxes, you're begging the question, saying "how many centuries" rather "one hundred times how many years".

I prefer ctona'a, too, because it's a time unit, whereas na'acto is a number word. 

stevo

2012/3/5 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, iesk <pa.fae@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hmm… jbovlaste has both "ctona'a" and "na'acto" for 'century'. I
> remember thinking about that, but I didn't (and still don't)
> understand which one is better (according to the internal logic of
> Lojban, I suppose).

ctona'a: ko'a nanca lo xecto be ko'e
na'acto: ko'a xecto lo nanca be ko'e

From a mathematical point of view they are equivalent, x times 100
years is the same as 100 times x years, but from a semantic point of
view I prefer the former, since we tend to think in terms of how many
centuries rather than in terms of one hundred times how many years.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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