From lojbab@lojban.org Sun May 07 00:52:19 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6116 invoked from network); 7 May 2000 07:52:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 May 2000 07:52:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 May 2000 07:52:18 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic117.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.117]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09727 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 03:50:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000507035132.00aae410@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 03:54:48 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page In-Reply-To: <20000506212358.71572.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 02:23 PM 05/06/2000 -0700, Jorge Llambias wrote: >It is not very clear to me what status the recommendation >to use DD;MM;YYYY has in Lojban. The reverse order is equally >grammatical and just as easy to understand. It is also >unambiguous, because the 4 digits of the year make it clear >which part is the year. So: > >{li 2000;05;07} can be nothing but May 7th of this year, >same as {li ;05;07} and {li ;;07}. (I would assume that >elisions default to current.) > >Similarly {li 07;05;2000}, {li 07;05;} and {li 07;;}. > >Since there is no possible confusion, there doesn't seem >to be any need to exclude either one as a possibility. This approach would require the elisions to be marked with those "pi'e" semicolons. It is not as if such conventions could not work; rather it is not in the book (or any Lojban material) that way. Would a different convention be a baseline change? Would it contradict anything in the Book? lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)