Re: [lojban] Using Lojban in 'very' defined contexts (eg. maths)

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

This is a good question.

I wonder if "pa-ci-re" is an efficient way to say "132".   It may be
good for a computer, which "understands" the things in a syntactic
way, but I would say that humans prefer the semantic-pragmatic way
which is found in "one-hundred, three-tens, two-units", (even if tens
is said "-ty" and units is implicit), because there's the positional
meaning of 1 that means "one hundred" imported in the language.

People tend to think pragmatically/semantically, not only along
syntax, as, perhaps, Lojban does a little too much ?

2012/3/2, M.Nael <muhammad.nael@gmail.com>:
> Would this work?
> My native language is Arabic yet I've studied Mathematics since age 3 in
> English... Arabic has the disadvantage of having 'too-many syllables' as
> opposed to (usually) 1-2 in English.
> This is most visible in numbers. Arabic 'One' is 'wa?id' | 'Two' is
> 'i0na:n' | 'Three' is '0la:0ah' and so on.
> Even with English being more efficient here (and I've grown to use its
> number-words in mental calculation), I still find myself saying
> 'three-thousand bla-bla-hundred), ...etc. Lojban number-words should make
> up for this, thus:
> My question is: how much would training for 'pa-ci-re' instead of
> 'one-hundred, thirty-two' etc... be beneficial for my mental calculations?
> And if I decided to extend this to the whole of my mathematical thinking?
> Has anyone tried to use *just* the maths (and generally science-part) of
> Lojban?
>
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