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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:07:44 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Using Lojban in 'very' defined contexts (eg. maths) To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: rpglover64@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rpglover64@gmail.com designates 209.85.213.177 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rpglover64@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / e'o Citation for said research for the interested? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sebastian Fr=F6jd = wrote: > I've been studying some psychology and there has been some research in > recent years which supports the saphir-whorf hypothesis. For example the > fact that chinese children grasp the base-10 position system several year= s > earlier than english-speaking children (approx 5 year instead of 8 year). > The cause for this seems to be the chinese numeral systems which is prett= y > much the same as lojban. > To say pareci really is easier than to say onehundred and twentythree, an= d > if you think otherwise it's probably because you has not get used to it y= et. > > mu'omi'e jongausib > > Den fredagen den 2:e mars 2012 skrev .arpis.= : > >> From my meager experience, the lojban system is nicer than English for >> thinking of _numbers_, as long as _quantity_ doesn't matter. That's >> okay, though, because any digit based system is poor at expressing >> quantity at scale. >> >> ba zu ju'o cu'i I would like to practice using lojban numbers for a >> memory system (inspired by >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system) and practice >> using them for arithmetic. >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, MorphemeAddict wrote= : >>> This has sort of come up before. I agree that bare numerals seem harder >>> to >>> use than numbers that mark the value at each place. When I was in the >>> army >>> (too few years ago) a man once directed us in physical training exercis= es >>> saying "one five" for 15. I found it irritating. >>> What do the accomplished speakers here think? >>> >>> stevo >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Escape Landsome >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> This is a good question. >>>> >>>> I wonder if "pa-ci-re" is an efficient way to say "132". =A0 It may be >>>> good for a computer, which "understands" the things in a syntactic >>>> way, but I would say that humans prefer the semantic-pragmatic way >>>> which is found in "one-hundred, three-tens, two-units", (even if tens >>>> is said "-ty" and units is implicit), because there's the positional >>>> meaning of 1 that means "one hundred" imported in the language. >>>> >>>> People tend to think pragmatically/semantically, not only along >>>> syntax, as, perhaps, Lojban does a little too much ? >>>> >>>> 2012/3/2, M.Nael : >>>> > Would this work? >>>> > My native language is Arabic yet I've studied Mathematics since age = 3 >>>> > in >>>> > English... Arabic has the disadvantage of having 'too-many syllables= ' >>>> > as >>>> > opposed to (usually) 1-2 in English. >>>> > This is most visible in numbers. Arabic 'One' is 'wa?id' | 'Two' is >>>> > 'i0na:n' | 'Three' is '0la:0ah' and so on. >>>> > Even with English being more efficient here (and I've grown to use i= ts >>>> > number-words in mental calculation), I still find myself saying >>>> > 'three-thousand bla-bla-hundred), ...etc. Lojban number-words should >>>> > make >>>> > up for this, thus: >>>> > My question is: how much would training for 'pa-ci-re' instead of >>>> > 'one-hundred, thirty-two' etc... be beneficial for my mental >>>> > calculations? >>>> > And if I decided to extend this to the whole of my mathematical >>>> > thinking? >>>> > Has anyone tried to use *just* the maths (and generally science-part= ) >>>> > of >>>> > Lojban? >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> > Groups >>>> > "lojban" group. >>>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/-/J2Orr4yu-lUJ. >>>> > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> > lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >>>> > For more options, visit this group at >>>> > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=3Den. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> "lojban" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=3Den. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou= ps >>> "lojban" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> -- >> mu'o mi'e .arpis. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group= s >> "lojban" group. >> To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=3Den. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=3Den. --=20 mu'o mi'e .arpis. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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