From phm@A2E.DE Fri May 12 01:12:54 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5991 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.camelot.de) (195.30.224.3) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from robin.camelot.de (uucp@robin.camelot.de [195.30.224.3]) by mail.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03877; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:12:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from oas.a2e.de (uucp@localhost) by robin.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA03872; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:12:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost by wtao97 via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 08:09:25 +0000 (/etc/localtime) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1999-Nov-8) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:09:25 +0000 (/etc/localtime) X-Sender: phm@wtao97.oas.a2e.de To: Elrond Cc: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: PILCH Hartmut > > Personally I interpret the spirit of Lojban as accepting modern > > international standards (meters & kilograms, celsius, utc time, iso dates, > > etc) unless a really good reason interferes. > I do the same. However the possible "good reasons" must be checked > carefully first. You might as well just "accept English as the international standard". Why bother about creating a neutral language roots of diverse sources? -phm