Re: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@A2E.DE>]

> As I just said about some other meshugash, this "logical" has nothing to do 
> with Lojban being a logical language, and so that line of chat is irrelevant 
> here.  The pattern of relevance for the order of things is consistently 
> throughout the language "most used first"  (or "least used last") so long as 
> it is consistent with the basic design.

wrong.

The structure of lojban tanru is like yyyy-mm-dd:  central part in the
end, delimiting peripherals prepended (or elided) as far as necessitated
by the context.

The ddmmyy structure comes from latin and other west-european languages,
where the composites are built using the genitive (or English 'of'):
central part in the beginning, delimiting peripherals appended (or
elided).

	day 3 of month 12 of year 1999

This would perfectly translate into a Lojban tanru structure of

	1999 12 3

which could of course, when needed, be transformed to

	3 be 12 be 1999

-phm



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