Re: Yawn....err...Happy...uh...Millennium....or something...?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 4, 2000, 2:16 |
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:09:47 -0600, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:
>> Not really Y2K in Techia either. The Ethiopian calendar says it's only
>> 1992.
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>What do they count from?
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>Among the Kassí, it's still the second "century" (base 12, remember), a
>few years from the first year of the third "century"
I also use base 12 in Tirelat, but since the rest of the world uses base
10, I have a few words for things based on hundreds and thousands. So
"ragayagi" (century) and "ragavili" (millennium) refer to periods of time
in a traditional 10-based calendar such as the Gregorian one, while
"ragayovaj" (144 years) and "ragagarshi" (1,728 years) are used with the
Tirelat calendar (which began on December 22).
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