[lojban-beginners] Re: Single numbers as years

["Betsemes" <betsemes@hotmail.com>]

> > (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"?
>
> -Robin
>

Chapter 5, Dates section reads this way:

Begin of quote:

The gismu for 'year', nanca cannot be used instead of detri, since it has
the place-structure
x1 is x2 years in duration, by standard x3
i.e. it gives the length of an event in years, not the year when an event
happened. One way out is to use a cmene for the year, so the year I (Robin)
am writing this would be la pasososonanc. (And the year I (Nick) am writing
this would be la renonopananc..)
Tip: You will also see year names ending in nan: la renonopanan.

End of quote.