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Re: [lojban] Times of Day
At 05:19 PM 2001-07-06, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
.i kantu be le se spuda be lenu la lojbab. cu cpedu loi pinka be le velcli
cu caca'a barda .i ja'ebo mi carmi se pluka le ka le lojbo cecmu cu
simsidju djica
Pierre has pointed out to me that, with numerals following te'i by
default, there is no real need for cmene for hours of the day. The only
compelling reason I can see is to distinguish by a cmene postfix (lir.,
lec.) between AM and PM. So:
(a) Should cmene for hours be mentioned? Or should we just make Lojban
24-hour and be done with it?
Please can we go make the 24-hour clock official? Pretty please? I hate
having the hours of the morning (and afternoon) run
12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, or worse
XII I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI
I suppose that the late medieval monks and priests in charge of the church
clocks weren't having any truck with those infidel numerals that the
mathematicians were promoting--especially not 0. After all, Fibonacci
published Liber Abaci in 1202, the same year the Fourth Crusade was launched.
Edward Cherlin
Generalist
"A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it."
Alice in Wonderland