Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetal / big endian pattern

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 15:54:18 -0400

At 07:35 PM 05/07/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> > Internet URLs are designed for computers and are not a human language,
> > hence are irrelevant.
>
>URLs are human language,

mi na tavla bau la URL

> IP addresses are computer language.

URLs are codes for IP addresses. They are not "language", much less human 
language.

> > Lojban is not concerned with what "should be". This is not a language
> > reform project. the question is what is internally consistent with the
> > language design, which is not optimal nor is it trying to be.
>
>Exactly. To me, little endian dates seem inconsistent with the language
>design of Lojban and consistent with the habits of English.

And German, and a lot of other languages.

lojbab
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