Re: CHAT: Happy New Year! Parinaye!

Melissa Phong wrote:
> Besides, how long will that last? I don't think we'll be living in the
> year two thousand thirty five. And I sure don't see people living in two
> thousand one hundred fifty two instead of twenty one fifty two or at least
> the old-style twenty one hundred fifty two.
Well, why not?  In Spanish, 1999 is "one thousand, nine hundred,
ninety-nine".  I suspect that people will say "twenty-twenty-three" for
2023, but "two thousand three" for 2003.  I'd probably say
"twenty-thirteen" for 2013, but I'm not sure.

But, who knows what the convention will be after the first decade of the
twenty-first century?

> Obligatory CR: has anyone felt the need to deal with this in their
> language and how did they do it?
Simply saying the year as a regular number, preceded, when given as part
of a date, by "watya'nifaf plas", watya'nifaf is a double-genetive of
watya'ni (year) - having two genetive endings, one to show the relation
to the month, and one to agree with the month's genetive - and "plas", a
particle indicating apposition, required in certain situations.

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Today is:
11 Watikala'f Wakabi'f watya'nifaf plas 272
809, September 15
12.19.6.15.4, 13 Kan 12 Kankin