Re: Expressing ages
| From: | Gracie V. <the1@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 30, 2003, 1:18 |
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how age is expressed in
> Ikanirae Seru, and I'm interested in knowing how other
> languages do it.
KuJomu has a verb which pretty much means "to be in the Xth year [of life]".
Years are 388 (or was it 400?) days though, I think, not 365.
I had that all worked out perfectly once when I was obsessed with this theory; I
don't remember it too much now.