From lojban+bncCK7Yk5CUCxDJ2JXpBBoEHXyMRA@googlegroups.com Wed Jan 05 23:16:38 2011 Received: from mail-qy0-f189.google.com ([209.85.216.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pak5L-0002JQ-Re; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:38 -0800 Received: by qyk1 with SMTP id 1sf54339173qyk.16 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:mime-version:received:received :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=FG8APok68JIzOWyDZuHO+lSyyhBIto22nlgxLmHf0F8=; b=WYj5oX2g7rqzv30veADCnLPy2NU46el8tpz/GTmbynFrOZmjyN5uvT0b7xzw/bUX8a w8/IZF2jCrdH02Rpi0dvskx503/9+QufTg4ujv9dLg5XYfkUVjoMkCuXZSpNutZ9FCXf RBkjauVSkBhGVLgu5tu8zNma7NjsYYPk9xoQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; b=hml4LdOIkXkhqJrIxfqhV2ZG4OLcCRZxm6N73FdeuCN2HI2sH8lW7M2Syi9iV/EleH m3qecwXXpZd7q2tRCURJoSmKeRFiKXIk+dM6qkglNWYuLl+c3z7GXKAmF2K/XscDHzqP lbwA4dvMOZO5DNbbYuS6EQUombHWCm8eLbdZg= Received: by 10.229.101.30 with SMTP id a30mr3300415qco.32.1294298185333; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:25 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.229.197.8 with SMTP id ei8ls4065702qcb.1.p; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.111.140 with SMTP id s12mr2538002qcp.23.1294298184868; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.111.140 with SMTP id s12mr2538001qcp.23.1294298184823; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7si4360680qcu.6.2011.01.05.23.16.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.175; Received: by mail-qy0-f175.google.com with SMTP id 8so16891199qyk.6 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.99.130 with SMTP id u2mr21498566qcn.87.1294298183721; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.227.73 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <9114501.161.1294150198377.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqhy19> <20110105165612.GL17534@digitalkingdom.org> <0a644923-609c-4537-b478-f9e446f6e779@g25g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 08:16:23 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Vote for the Future Global Language From: Remo Dentato To: "lojban@googlegroups.com" X-Original-Sender: rdentato@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.175 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdentato@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Jonathan Jones wrote: > > I don't think anyone uses Latin numerals anymore, with the exception of dating (as in movies.) Arabic's base-10 system is so much better. :D Even of not so often used, in Italian, roman numerals are used to mean ordinals so that XIV means "the 14th". I'm not sure about French but I suspect they do the same -- 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=en.