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From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:41:16 -0400
Subject: Re: [lojban] Centripetal-centrifugal, little-endian--big-endian, subsets-contents, etc.
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At 08:02 PM 05/12/2000 +0000, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > Obviously all has to do with what one is most likely to want
> > to communicate or to leave out.  We discuss recent events more
> > often than remote ones, so years are elided more often than days
> > -- otoh, seconds are not very useful on their own.
>
>No. This has to do with what the speaker thinks of first.  Not with what
>needs to be communicated first.  Speech is shaped in a field of forces
>between two poles: the laziness of the speaker and that of the listener.
>
>Also, speaking of elision here is wrong.


I meant to say ellipsis, which has been replaced by several other speakers 
in this thread with elision. Sorry.

lojbab
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