From pycyn@aol.com Fri Sep 14 06:55:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 14 Sep 2001 13:55:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 47886 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2001 13:06:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Sep 2001 13:06:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d03.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.35) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 13:06:45 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.f9.f844964 (657) for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:06:38 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_f9.f844964.28d35ade_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_f9.f844964.28d35ade_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/14/2001 2:33:40 AM Central Daylight Time, b.gohla@gmx.de writes: > i am getting the feeling that there is quite a tendency in lojban to > overspecify things. i consider date formatting to be beyond the realm of > the > language itself, just like alot of the metaphysics we tend to talk about. > so > instead of embossing a specific world view into lojban we should > concentrate > on making as much as possible easily and clearly expressible. > I take that for support for what we have -- or for using any old format at all and glorking. We're stuck with having a format and the argument is which one to have. --part1_f9.f844964.28d35ade_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/14/2001 2:33:40 AM Central Daylight Time, b.gohla@gmx.de writes:


i am getting the feeling that there is quite a tendency in lojban to
overspecify things. i consider date formatting to be beyond the realm of the
language itself, just like alot of the metaphysics we tend to talk about. so
instead of embossing a specific world view into lojban we should concentrate
on making as much as possible easily and clearly expressible.  


I take that for support for what we have -- or for using any old format at all and glorking.  We're stuck with having a format and the argument is which one to have. --part1_f9.f844964.28d35ade_boundary--