From araizen@newmail.net Tue Dec 03 06:29:27 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 3 Dec 2002 14:29:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 6888 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 14:29:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2002 14:29:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 14:29:26 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18JE3C-0001u0-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:29:26 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JE33-0001tQ-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:29:17 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.30] ident=exim) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JE2t-0001t3-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:29:07 -0800 Received: from gx-65.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.180.65] helo=newmail.net ident=araizen) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 18JE2r-000OZj-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:29:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3DECBFB0.5040802@newmail.net> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:29:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] little-endian vs. big-endian (was:Specific example of Sapir-Whorf in English OR How Lojban made me think more clearly) References: <0H6I00GBZKTYWC@mxout2.netvision.net.il> <20021203003734.GA41942@allusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 2970 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: araizen@newmail.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Adam Raizen Reply-To: araizen@newmail.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=3063669 X-Yahoo-Profile: araizen la djorden. cusku di'e > I use big-endian in english, but lojban's specified (I think? I > only remember this from nick/robin's lessons; dunno what, if anything, > the book says) to use little endian. > > It's probably not a problem to go ahead using big-endian, though, > since the two are unambig because the year is 4 digits. I don't think that the book says anything about it, though I'm not completely certain, but at any rate, this is clearly an extra-linguistic issue. In the US they use middle-endian dates, whereas in Britain they use little-endian dates, and no one claims that Americans and Britons speak different languages because of that. It's a bit like metric vs. English Imperial. mu'o mi'e .adam.