Re: [lojban] Re: Aesthetics

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> Using the cmavo, even though the CLL does it, is like the arbitrary
> English habit of spelling out numbers less than "fifteen", but using
> digits for numbers over 16. At some point, for numbers large enough to be
> unwieldy, even the most devoted cmavo-lover must break down and use
> digits. But at what threshold?

Depends.  For technical prose (in English) I use digits for all numbers
greater than 9, and even for smaller numbers if I am contrasting with 10
or greater, as in this sentence.  But in non-technical prose I'll go up
to ninety-nine, and in dialogue even arbitrarily large numbers are spelled
out.

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