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

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com>]

Can't we refer to portions of time by means of a selbri
that has years, months, and days as different sumti?
Then endianicity becomes an irrelevance.

x1 is the x2th day of the x3th month of year x4

(OK, that looks littlendian, but only because Lojban
forces every selbri to have an unmarked place structure
whether you want it or not.)

All this faffing around with number conventions doesn't
jive with the basic principles of Lojban grammar. A
number is a number and its meaning should be independent
of the selbri it is a sumti of. The proper mechanism
for handling an agglomeration of related parameters,
such as are dates, is the predicate.

--And.