From phma@webjockey.net Mon Dec 02 16:52:19 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 3 Dec 2002 00:52:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 63571 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 00:52:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2002 00:52:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 00:52:19 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18J1IR-0003b6-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:52:19 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18J1IO-0003ap-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:52:16 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18J1IK-0003ad-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:52:12 -0800 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id EFECF3C477; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:51:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Specific example of Sapir-Whorf in English OR How Lojban made me think more clearly Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:51:21 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0H6I00GBZKTYWC@mxout2.netvision.net.il> <20021203003734.GA41942@allusion.net> In-Reply-To: <20021203003734.GA41942@allusion.net> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0212021951210C.24805@neofelis> X-archive-position: 2918 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 17409 On Monday 02 December 2002 19:37, Jordan DeLong wrote: > I use big-endian in english, but lojban's specified (I think? I > only remember this from nick/robin's lessons; dunno what, if anything, > the book says) to use little endian. > > It's probably not a problem to go ahead using big-endian, though, > since the two are unambig because the year is 4 digits. I use big-endian when writing a date in figures, whether in English or Lojban. The order of a fully-spelled-out date in English is dow month day year, in French is dow day month year, and in Lojban is day month year dow. phma