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Re: [lojban] centripetal / big endian pattern

At 07:35 PM 05/07/2000 +0000, you wrote:

> Internet URLs are designed for computers and are not a human language,
> hence are irrelevant.

URLs are human language,


mi na tavla bau la URL


IP addresses are computer language.
URLs are codes for IP addresses. They are not "language", much less human language. 


> Lojban is not concerned with what "should be". This is not a language
> reform project. the question is what is internally consistent with the
> language design, which is not optimal nor is it trying to be.

Exactly. To me, little endian dates seem inconsistent with the language
design of Lojban and consistent with the habits of English.


And German, and a lot of other languages.

lojbab
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