Lojban In General

Posted by geoffhacker on Wed 03 of Feb, 2010 00:13 GMT posts: 11

.ui ko go'i doi djan.

2010/1/1 Jon "Top Hat" Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>

> .ui ko gleki lonu cnino nanca
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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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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