From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 18 07:37:28 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ed8Iq-0002pv-LV for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:37:28 -0800 Received: from dionysos.oderland.com ([213.115.211.26]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1Ed8Io-0002pl-Gs for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:37:28 -0800 Received: from handgran by dionysos.oderland.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Ed8I8-0007i4-W1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:36:45 +0100 Received: from 85.226.150.186 ([85.226.150.186]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user sunnan@handgranat.org) by handgranat.org with HTTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:36:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <2144.85.226.150.186.1132328204.squirrel@handgranat.org> In-Reply-To: <925d17560511180657i426bd84pd6728776ce428523@mail.gmail.com> References: <2967.85.226.150.186.1132286067.squirrel@handgranat.org> <20051118041237.GH20158@miranda.org> <3926.85.226.150.186.1132297833.squirrel@handgranat.org> <2653.85.226.150.186.1132299499.squirrel@handgranat.org> <925d17560511180657i426bd84pd6728776ce428523@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:36:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: I've written a wikipedia article From: sunnan@handgranat.org To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dionysos.oderland.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lojban.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32082 32082] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - handgranat.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-archive-position: 2600 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners > On 11/18/05, sunnan@handgranat.org wrote: > >> However, the name was one of the things I was concerned about, so your >> input is certainly welcome. > > Something to consider: brivla can be used as names too, so if you > are making the name meaningful, why not {la pacruxydinju}? I didn't know that brivla could be names, I thought names had to end with with a consonant. jbofi'e parses that totally weirdly; it thinks I'm saying: la / / pa /1/ cruxydinju /??-building(s)??/)] I do like the idea, but do I need to do something special for brivla to work as names? >> * vidni selkmi zilcmi for videogame series > > Maybe {porsi} for "series"? That was my initial idea and I'll probably change back to that. Thanks. >> * fydysyskam and mysyxyskam for the FDS and the MSX (and how do I >> specify >> MSX 2?) > > I'd prefer {fydysy}, {mysyxy} also written as {FDS} and {MSX}. > That's ghastly, what ever happened to written/spoken isomorphy? I've also seen digits [0-9] in some wikipedia articles. It should be no, so and so on! This was one of the main lures of lojban for me. > {MSX 2} can be {mysyxyre} although I'd rather make it {mysyxyrebu} > because I think digits shouldn't be mixed with letterals (mixing > them causes more problems than it solves). Ah, rebu was what I was looking for. I was also wondering where to put it. >> * the year; I tried to find information about lojban's date format but >> all >> I found was flamewars on whether it should be big- or little endian. The >> gismu list seems to imply little endian so that's what I used (even >> though >> I'd prefer it the other way around, iso-style). I'm especially concerned >> since years and dates are something I'd like computers to easily parse. > > I prefer big-endian too. The grammar allows both (and many other) > conventions. It is always possible to be unambiguous with either > convention, so everyone can (will) use whatever they like most. How do I do it?