From b.gohla@gmx.de Fri Sep 14 00:30:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 14 Sep 2001 07:30:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 73228 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2001 07:28:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 14 Sep 2001 07:28:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 07:28:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 23201 invoked by uid 0); 14 Sep 2001 06:16:05 -0000 Received: from b7a14.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.20) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 06:16:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:19:41 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091408194100.01115@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 September 2001 23:48, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > The YY-MM-DD format which the ISO has prescribes is what I've been using > for the past ten years; I was taught it as an engineering student. There'= s > a lot of it about. The kind of "noone else > is doing it, quasigovernmental whim" stuff pc brings up is (a) bogus > (though characteristically libertarian :-) ), and > (b) the reason why the metric system will never happen in the States. > It's nonsense, but it's you guys' loss. > > The Lojban-internal reasons adduced are also not compelling to me. Noone'= s > going to confuse dates with trailing sumti; it'd be quite OK not to have > them behave the same. After all, Linnaean taxonomy is not going to work > like that in Lojban either: you'll still be naming Genus and Species, and > omitting every taxon above it. i am getting the feeling that there is quite a tendency in lojban to=20 overspecify things. i consider date formatting to be beyond the realm of th= e=20 language itself, just like alot of the metaphysics we tend to talk about. s= o=20 instead of embossing a specific world view into lojban we should concentrat= e=20 on making as much as possible easily and clearly expressible.=20=20 - --=20 - -------------------- panic ("No CPUs found. System halted.\n"); 2.4.3 linux/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7oaGCbBQ8OYNPSXYRAg1nAKCqURD6ShilMH16EDK5+p1gCQ7ccwCff3yO puXrstgYNUSziZspOusWJBM=3D =3DamuI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----