RE: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> Calling me a libertarian is hilarious, I'm as much a standards nut as
>> anyone.  But I lost this one, and my obligation as leader is to stand up
>> for those who won the argument.  Linguistically, I'm a pragmatist.  Lojban
>> is not by prescription going to change the way people think (you are the
>> anti-Whorfist, though, so you should be making this argument).  At best it
>> can make it possible for people to change the way they think.  Right now
>> they seem to think in 12 hour clocks (and the fact that 12 hour clocks have
>> persisted since the Babylonians were the last to use a duodecimal multiple
>> as a base makes it hard to imagine that this will change quickly).
>which might have to do with the fact that most analog clocks only have a 12h 
>scale (or is it the other way around? ;) ).  

Well, they could easily make clocks that moved half as fast, with twice as many numbers. It would look darned silly, though.

                             --Craig Daniel

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