Re: years as dates

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@xxxxxxx.xxxx]

la robin cusku di´e

>coi rodoi

i di´u na gendra i pe´i do skudji lu coi rodo li´u

>lenu la kolumbus. facki le cnino gugde se detri li pavosore

[cu missing]

>would mean that he discovered America on the 1492nd day, rather
>than in the year 1492. Would something like {la pavosorenanc.}
>clear this up?

I think that would be understood. Maybe {facki} will
end up with that meaning too, since it is almost
always used for finding some object, place or person
rather than for finding out that some fact is true
about something.

>{ta'o} I left {le cnino gugde} deliberately vague to avoid
>confusion/argument about what he really did discover!

{le cnino munje} would work too.

>Another question - I've always used the question word {ma} with
>{detri} and {tcika}, since although the normal x1 is a number
>(implying {xo} as the question), the place seems also capable of
>taking cmene,

But {ma} asks for any sumti, and can be used to ask for
sumti with {li} as well. You don´t need that justification
for using {ma}. To use {xo} you´d have to say {li xo}
instead of plain {ma}.

>as in
>
>la pacac. cu tcika ti
>
>or
>
>la padjed. cu detri ti

{la padjed} was Monday, Sunday, or the first of the month?

co´o mi´e xorxes