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Re: [lojban] Re: Making a jbo locale file and package for installation, need some suggestions.




On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Feilen Haksan <feilen1000@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm afraid the consensus from IRC is on purely numerical calendar names. The only problem there is in 3-letter abbreviations, both months and days, and how to distinguish them.

That's one of the problems, but I wouldn't say it's the only one. If Lojban had gismu for "x1 is the x2-th day of the week", "x1 is the x2-th day of the month" and "x1 is x2 days in duration", then the numeric system to name the days of the week might work. As it is, we only have a gismu for the third of those relations, and the most obvious meaning for "cibdei" is "x1 is three days in duration", so the convention that makes it mean "Wednesday" relies on more or less ignoring the meaning of "djedi". In this system,presumably "reljeftu" would not be used for "fortnight", but for "week 2 (of the month?)". "xavyma'i" is not "semester" but "June". Presumably "dekna'a" can still be "decade", whereas "pavnonyna'a" would be "the year 10"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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