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

[sunnan@handgranat.org]

> 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}?

I didn't know that brivla could be names, I thought names had to end with
with a consonant.
jbofi'e parses that totally weirdly; it thinks I'm saying:
la / / pa /1/ cruxydinju /??-building(s)??/)]

I do like the idea, but do I need to do something special for brivla to
work as names?

>> * vidni selkmi zilcmi for videogame series
>
> Maybe {porsi} for "series"?

That was my initial idea and I'll probably change back to that. Thanks.

>> * 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>

That's ghastly, what ever happened to written/spoken isomorphy?
I've also seen digits [0-9] in some wikipedia articles. It should be no,
so and so on! This was one of the main lures of lojban for me.

> {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).

Ah, rebu was what I was looking for. I was also wondering where to put it.

>> * 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.

How do I do it?