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[lojban] little-endian vs. big-endian (was:Specific example of Sapir-Whorf in English OR How Lojban made me think more clearly)



la djorden. cusku di'e

I use big-endian in english, but lojban's specified (I think?  I
only remember this from nick/robin's lessons; dunno what, if anything,
the book says) to use little endian.

It's probably not a problem to go ahead using big-endian, though,
since the two are unambig because the year is 4 digits.

I don't think that the book says anything about it, though I'm not completely certain, but at any rate, this is clearly an extra-linguistic issue. In the US they use middle-endian dates, whereas in Britain they use little-endian dates, and no one claims that Americans and Britons speak different languages because of that. It's a bit like metric vs. English Imperial.

mu'o mi'e .adam.