From rob@twcny.rr.com Wed Sep 12 21:44:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 13 Sep 2001 04:44:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 87888 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2001 04:43:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Sep 2001 04:43:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.169) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Sep 2001 04:43:28 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f8D4gQo01118 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:42:23 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15hOL2-0000aO-00 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:42:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:42:55 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: (from lojban-beginners) pi'e Message-ID: <20010913004255.C1780@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:18:45PM -0700, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > > cu'u la rab. > > >To express a time and a date simultaneously, I would say this: > >{mi jbena fi li 8:24 pe li 13:9:1973} > > Though there's no intrinsic reason you can't combine time and date into > the one leviathan: > > mi jbena fi li 8 pi'e 24 pi'e 13 pi'e 9 pi'e 1973 (24 hour time, I hope, > right? :-) (We've answered the question, so I think I'll bring this over to the main list...) I think there is an intrinsic reason. Dates go from smaller to larger units, and times go from larger to smaller. Combining them like that gives the bizarre order: hour, minute, [second], day, month, year. Does that work? It seems to me that pi'e should bear at least some resemblance to an ordinary decimal point. -- Rob Speer