years as dates

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

coi rodoi

The convention for {detri} is that if there is only one number in
x1, it is the day of the month (at least according to the draft
textbook - others have suggested reversing the dating order).
However, how can we say when, for example, Columbus discovered
the New World, without giving the day as well as the year, or
putting in a load of {pi'e}s?

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

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

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

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, as in

la pacac. cu tcika ti

or

la padjed. cu detri ti

co'o mi'e robin.