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On 12/20/2011 01:57 AM, Danny Pickle wrote:
> Does lojban have a concept of namespaces? Like everything said by the
> speaker is assumed to be in their namespace, but they could specify
> otherwise. For example, i could talk about "free culture" and mean
> something different than what larry lessig would mean by "free culture" but
> we can each talk about the "free culture" in the other's namespace.
> 
> P.S. On an unrelated note, can lojban easily designate the base used for a
> number/in math (base ten, two, sixteen, seven, whatever)?

You could say {lo se cmene be la .frikultcr. bei la .lerilesyg.}.

You can specify radix explicitly with {ju'u}.

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