From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Apr 26 14:55:57 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JpsNB-00050F-0p for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:55:57 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.240.46]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JpsN6-0004qc-5l for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:55:56 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080426215546.QZSD27061.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:55:46 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id JMsy1Z00D3y5FKc02Msya6; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:55:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4813A4AE.1070606@lojban.org> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:54:54 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Nth letter of the alphabet References: <200804261636.47827.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200804261636.47827.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14404 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Pierre Abbat wrote: > When numbering the letters of the Lojban alphabet, what number is assigned > to "a"? Do we start "y'y, abu, by", or "y'y, slaka bu, denpa bu, abu"? The obvious answer is probably a non-answer to you, but very Lojbanic. a is the a'th letter of the alphabet, and y'y is the y'y'th letter of the alphabet. Since we have defined no official order (in fact we haven't defined what lerfu constitute the "Lojban alphabet"), that is really all that can be said. Alternatively, if you insist on a real order, and can define the members of the Lojban alphabet, the order is whatever order a generic sort engine will sort them as, presumably ASCII order for the symbols in question. lojbab To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.