Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i...

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 06:53 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > The fact that the words for the numbers are not in alphabetical order.
> >
> > That, IMO, was a really, really huge mistake.
> >
> > -Robin, randomly whining.
>
> I don't really see what the problem there is. If you're entering numbers into
> something you want to sort alphanumerically in Lojban, why not just type the
> digits?
>
> I think a bigger flaw with the numbers is the {re} / {rei} one that was just
> pointed out. Here I was trying to impress the hex digits in my memory and I
> never even noticed that two digits are as indistinguishable as two different
> words can possibly be. What happened to making the numbers all audibly
> distinct? It worked for all the rest of the digits.

It was a priority for the digits from 0 to 9.  With the hex digits, I 
wanted to keep them monosyllables and have them alphabetical and with 
repeating VV pattern as well for easy memorization.  But I admit I did not 
compare the CVs with the CVVs.  My bad.

lojbab
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