[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:
> > In many contexts "2" and "P" are much easier to read.
>
> That's a matter of both taste and habit. I prefer re and py. I want to
> Sapir-Whorf my brain to pieces and eventually learn the mekso system. RPN
> of course. I want to speak digits.

Whether you write {cimuno} or {ci mu no} or {350}, the pronunciation has
to be the same. In all cases you are "speaking digits".

> > For example {li pasobibi} can only be a year.
>
> It can also mean Thursday, January the first, thirty-three minutes and
> eight seconds past midnight, 1970.

I meant in a context where a date is expected, as in {de'i li pasobibi},
and only contrasting big-endian with little-endian, i.e. YMD vs DMY. Of
course it's possible to devise all manner of different systems that will assign
different dates to any number.

> m'ie snan (or, I guess it can be mi'e snani now, but that doesn't sound so
> similar to my Swedish name Sunnan as snan does.)

{snanu} right? At least it uses the same letters. :)

mu'o mi'e xorxes