Re: years as dates

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la robin cusku di´e

>Actually the original example in the lesson has a {kei} after {gugde}, 
>which I assume does the same trick. It was
>
>lenu la kolumbus. facki lo cnino gugde kei se detri ma

It still doesn´t work. You get the sumti {le nu...kei se
detri}. The sentence is grammatical, but it doesn´t have
a selbri. You would need {ku} after {kei} to close the
sumti. When the choice is between {cu} and anything else,
{cu} is the way to go.

> > >{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.
>
>That was my first choice, but I thought it might be a bit malglico.
>Coloumbus doscovered what was (to him at least) a new country, but "The New 
>World" for the Americas seems a bit culture-specific.

He thought he had discovered a new route to an old place.
Maybe {le cnino dargu}?

>I had considered introducing {xo} in this
>lesson but dropped the idea, as {xo} doesn't seem to be that useful outside 
>complicated mekso stuff.

I almost never use mekso stuff, but I find {xo} useful
for other things. Not for "what number" questions, but
for "how many/how much" questions. Things like:
{xo prenu cu zvati le kumfa}.

co´o mi´e xorxes