In a message dated 9/13/2001 11:52:37 AM Central Daylight Time, jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU writes:
Lojban ought to include itself in the world cultural community, and adopt While that arguments has had its charms over the years, it does not alter the original reason for the order chosen, which was made for internal reasons within Lojban and quite independently of any other issues (whatever they may have been?). {tytypaci} or {paci} within the ccyymmdd format may or may not be ambiguous in context; within the Lojban rules the first is, of course, unneccessary and the second clearly a safe unambiguous date. We're not being antisocial, but we also notice that no one else is changing on some quasigovernmental whim either. When the Mayans take over, we'll be told that we should all use the uudz kale katunob -- and we probably still will use ddmmm(cc)yy (can't do anything about those misplaced cc's). |