From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Jun 21 17:19:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 00:19:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 64161 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 00:19:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 00:19:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 00:19:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5M0JNw12858 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:19:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i... In-Reply-To: <20010621185324.A1143@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8218 On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > The fact that the words for the numbers are not in alphabetical order. > > > > That, IMO, was a really, really huge mistake. > > > > -Robin, randomly whining. > > I don't really see what the problem there is. If you're entering numbers into > something you want to sort alphanumerically in Lojban, why not just type the > digits? > > I think a bigger flaw with the numbers is the {re} / {rei} one that was just > pointed out. Here I was trying to impress the hex digits in my memory and I > never even noticed that two digits are as indistinguishable as two different > words can possibly be. What happened to making the numbers all audibly > distinct? It worked for all the rest of the digits. ki'u ma ciska le porsi be tai le namcu valsi .enai le namcu lerfu .i namcu valsi sepi'o le zumbacru .e le zumpensi .e ru'e le zumciska ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!