Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la pycyn cusku di'e

>ISO's standards are voluntary and some of
>them pretty uniformly ignored because stupid (hey, it was a committee, what 
>can you expect).

i u'i la lojban ji'a se platu lo kamni

>Better one convention, even if you think
>it sucks -- apparently not practically, but because it is "illogical"  
>Sounds
>like Brits and driving.

Personally I don't care much one way or the other.
I like DDMMYYYY because it's what I'm used to in Spanish,
and I like YYYYMMDD because of all the reasons Hartmut
is giving. I just don't see a pressing need to impose a
convention at this point. As you say, it is not something
likely to cause confusion.

co'o mi'e xorxes





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