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spheniscine@gmail.com, On 11/06/2015 04:16:
> Again, think about addresses (e.g. 11A; technically is a number - do
> we have to use pa'ypa'y just because of the A at the end of it?),

"11A" is "eleven ay", even if in English it (especially with longer numbers=
) might be read as "one one ay" (for instance, I pronounce my address as "o=
ne seven two"). It means "Ath unit in 11th plot". If you were translating t=
o a language that uses a different number base, you'd translate to that lan=
guage's term for "eleven", not to that language's term for whichever number=
 is represented by digit string "11". Consulting my meagre knowledge of nat=
ural languages, when rendering House number 11 in languages other than Engl=
ish, you'd use that language's conventions for rendering house numbers, whi=
ch may exclude the "one one" option (as I vaguely think Italian does).

All of which is to say, the rendering of "11A" in Lojban should be somethin=
g that includes the number Eleven.

OTOH, there is a different sense of "postal address" as a character string =
such that if written on an envelope it will reliably get sent to the right =
address. That is just a sequence of letters and numerals.

--And.

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