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- Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:09 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
- Replies: 60
- Views: 55926
Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Dates are, of course, just addresses in time interesting idea Hardly original; the point is that all we need is a way to read off numerals to get this main use of numbers. The internet age problem is more acute -- How can I tell a 13-year-old that I am 16 and get her to meet me in the dark? We don'...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:01 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
- Replies: 60
- Views: 55926
Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Oh, and talking about the Superior Man is not likely to have much influence on a Daoist oriented site.
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:52 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
- Replies: 60
- Views: 55926
Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Dates are, of course, just addresses in time, so a solution for addresses generally solves dates as well. Age is admittedly a bit trickier, but I am at an age where the details don't seem very important (my wife, for example, is ten years younger than I am, but we think of ourselves as be contempora...
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: sin pi toki pona
- Topic: Comments on esun
- Replies: 33
- Views: 31902
Re: Comments on esun
Two brief notes 1 Though the reading for 'esun' is, inter alia, 'shop', the underlying notion seems to be 'trading' not 'shopping'. So, think first of all of a bazaar, not a mall, and then see how much of that carries over into the world in which you live (and how little of it is in stock trading, f...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
- Replies: 60
- Views: 55926
Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
My glee knew bounds when I read jan Sonja's suggrestion for nanpa suli. It was too much and too little; it conceded that the nanpasulists had a valid complaint but it gave them nowhere enough to satisfy. They want millions and billions and trillions ands she gave scores and hundreds. But the real pr...