[lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years

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

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:39:48PM +0100, Bram Geron wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 14:31, Betsemes wrote:
> > In chapter 5 of Lojban for Beginners, this comment is written:
> > "More recently there has been a proposal to make single numbers
> > refer by default to year rather than day; the controversy on
> > this has not settled down yet."
> >
> > This refers to the construct expressed as "li <number>" which in
> > case of dates refers to the day of month. I guess that this
> > proposal could have some time of having been proposed so I want
> > to know what have been decided about this if anything. (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).
> 
> You could use nanca, but you haven't learned how to use it. Keep
> on learning.

You could have been more useful, and less insulting, by showing him
how.

{nanca} doesn't solve his problem anyways, because it's about
duration, not date.

-Robin

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