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Re: [lojban] Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder
At 07:41 PM 10/2/01 +0000, hfroark@bigmailbox.net wrote:
There is one other mechanism I would like to see considered:
a way to assign a sticky base, so that one could define a
base at the beginning of a document or section, and have
the later numbers interpreted as the base in question.
Since, this wouldn't be a common operation, I don't think
that a cmavo needs to be assigned for that purpose.
There already is one. You can make all manner of metalinguistic sentences
anywhere in Lojban text using ti'o/sei+bridi-tail. You can unambiguously
set scope larger than a single sentence by enclosing the scoped text in
tu'e/tu'u brackets, and appending the ti'o/sei construct to the tu'e. In
this event it acts kinda as a footnote to the scoped text.
The most radical part of my suggestion is creating a new
cmavo for use in ju'i to indicate base sixteen.
Since Lojban usage has not in fact used ju'i much with *any* base values,
it is hard to justify adding more cmavo. The proper way to do this is to
establish usage IN LOJBAN using an ad hoc experimental cmavo which you
define as pano ju'i dau at first use, and then after people come to accept
and use such a word repeatedly, the case is built for adding a word to the
official language after the baseline ends.
lojbab
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