[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

> 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.