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Re: [lojban] Centripetal-centrifugal, little-endian--big-endian, subsets-contents, etc.
At 09:39 PM 05/10/2000 +0000, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> I am inclined to think that the fact that human languages fairly regularly
> offer centrifugal constructions is itself evidence that the
centripetal-only
> thought pattern is not in fact the rule.
The European languages are a tiny minority on the planet, but they have,
not through language design merits, marginalised most of the others.
Human languages are not designed, and are absolutely equal in terms of
"design merits".
> And, of course, none of this decides the structure of dates, since it is
> equally possible (and, to me, more natural) to take the year as the
name of a
> set and a month as specifying a subset within that set and the day as
> specifying a unit subset within that and thus get dmy again but as a
> centripetal structure.
You mean something like
the year 2001 .
which year 20001 ?
the year 2001 of the 5th month .
of which month 5 ?
the year 2001 of the 5th month of the 20th day .
No. You are using English language to talk about set membership, and that
requires the subset first, hence as he said dmy results.
but I fail to assign this any meaning.
Because you tried to express English as ymd, and it doesn't work.
lojbab
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