On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Minimiscience
<minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
de'i li 29 pi'e 12 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Jon Top Hat Jones .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
> cacra is defined in the gismu list as "x1 is x2 hours in duration (default
> is 1 hour) by standard x3"
>
> jboski translates lo te cacra as "standard for hour".
>
> This is confusing to me. What standard is being referred to, exactly?
.skamyxatra
{lo te cacra} is the definition of "hour" that the speaker is using. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour> for the various ways that it has been
defined throughout history. Theoretically, {lo te cacra} could possibly also
include information related to relativity & time dilation, but that would
probably be better expressed with "{ma'i}."
mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
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