[lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years

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

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:03:21PM +0100, Rapha?l Poss wrote:
> 
> Le 26 janv. 05, ? 20:49, Robin Lee Powell a ?crit :
> >    pa pi'e re pi'e pa ki'o
> >    -- "the first of February of 2000"
> >    pa ki'o
> >    -- "the year 2000"
> >    pa ki'o pi'e ci
> >    -- "March of the year 2000"
> >    pa ki'o pi'e ci pi'e vo
> >    -- "the 4th of March of the year 2000"
> >
> 
> s/pa ki'o/re ki'o/ (it's 2000 not 1000)

Or s/2000/1000/g

:-)

> Hence:
> 
>   pa pi'e re pi'e re ki'o
>   re ki'o
>   re ki'o pi'e ci
>   re ki'o pi'e ci pi'e vo

Right.

> >>(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"?
> 
> renononos ? Hmm, let's see...
> 
> {mi ba cliva ca la reki'on}
> 
> ... why not.

Because I don't like overloading of cmene.

-Robin

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