[lojban-beginners] Re: I've written a wikipedia article

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 11/18/05, sunnan@handgranat.org <sunnan@handgranat.org> wrote:

> However, the name was one of the things I was concerned about, so your
> input is certainly welcome.

Something to consider: brivla can be used as names too, so if you
are making the name meaningful, why not {la pacruxydinju}?

> * vidni selkmi zilcmi for videogame series

Maybe {porsi} for "series"?

> * fydysyskam and mysyxyskam for the FDS and the MSX (and how do I specify
> MSX 2?)

I'd prefer {fydysy}, {mysyxy} also written as {FDS} and {MSX}.
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Capitals%20as%20letter%20names>

{MSX 2} can be {mysyxyre} although I'd rather make it {mysyxyrebu}
because I think digits shouldn't be mixed with letterals (mixing
them causes more problems than it solves).

> * the year; I tried to find information about lojban's date format but all
> I found was flamewars on whether it should be big- or little endian. The
> gismu list seems to imply little endian so that's what I used (even though
> I'd prefer it the other way around, iso-style). I'm especially concerned
> since years and dates are something I'd like computers to easily parse.

I prefer big-endian too. The grammar allows both (and many other)
conventions. It is always possible to be unambiguous with either
convention, so everyone can (will) use whatever they like most.

mu'o mi'e xorxes