[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates

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

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:27:38PM -0700, Travis Garris wrote:
> I don't mind big endian when writing the date or time down in a
> short hand manner.  In a conversational context, however, how
> would you say "June 25th" or "the 25th of June".

Using Nick's method (see my last post), that would be

    detri fa li remu pi'e xa

> What I'm trying to get is the Lojban equivalent of "Today is
> Wednesday, the 25th of June."  

le cabdei cu se detri li remu pi'e xa gi'e cibdei

That last bit being the "Wednesday" part, and is probably a bit
non-standard.

> I could be cold or formal and say "25 June 2003" or "2003/06/25".

If you want the names of the months, that's a *whole* different
story.

-Robin

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