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

[sunnan@handgranat.org]

> 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".

Since I'm not yet as used to lojban as I am to english, when I see 350 I
see "three-fifty". I do know the lojban numbers so when I see cimuno I
know what number that is. But I call it cimuno, even "internally".

>> > 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.

In the Unix date format, 1988 means thirtythree minutes and eight seconds
past midnight, january first, 1970.
I guess you'd write something like:
de'i li pasobibi vede'i la epok
to specify that.
>> 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. :)
>
Yeah, snanu. Sorry, I keep forgetting the last vowel in almost all gismu I
"learn".
I like snanu a lot better than snani, anyway. As you said, it's a near
anagram. snanu and sunnan mean the same thing, too.

mi'e snan