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by janKipo
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'...
by janKipo
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.
by janKipo
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...
by janKipo
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...
by janKipo
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...