Re: USAGE: How to say This Week?

In a message dated 2003:06:11 01:24:27 AM, dan sulani@ZAHAV.NET.IL writes:

> [ . . . ] obConlang, I found that I didn't have any way
>to express this in rtemmu.
    Go, rtemmu, go! :) *yumyum!*

>So I came up with the following:
>
>I used the three suffixes:
>
>    1. -xas  = during the process under discussion
>    2. -saxas = the "universal process" after the process
>                     under dicussion has considered to be finished;
>                     ie "after"
>    3. -xasax = the "universal process" before the process
>                    under discussion is considered to have started;
>                    ie "before, previous"
    Personally I'd shorten those to near grammatical-particle-size... but
that's just me...I think.   1. -x or -xa    2. -sa  3. -xa  or -xas (or even -xaz)
    What _do_ others think 0_o?  Does this compute ;) ?

>and added them to the word  dono`gndadar  ( o` = [O]  )
>
>( = "week",
>don = 7
>o`g = compounding particle
>ndadar = 24 hour day
>thus  don-o`g-ndadar   = 7-day, or week.)
>
>Leaving out, for the moment, those infamous
>but interesting rate-of-change-markers ;-)
    LMAO. Lovely things they be...

< SniP >.
>
>How do you all handle this in your conlangs?
    en g0miileg0:

    saeptii-maanaa - unmarked, the current week beginning on Monday
_junii-maanaa_ , "now"

In a message dated 2003:06:11 03:54:18 AM, mr. cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:

>The ISO standard says that the week begins on Monday, and that the first
>week of the year is that which contains the first Thursday of the year
>(equivalently, the week that contains January 4).
    all others marked with either tense markers or specific date


>Dan Sulani
>-------------------------------------------------------
>likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a
>
>A word is an awesome thing.
    No joke.

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