From lojbab@lojban.org Fri May 12 04:45:42 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24006 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 11:45:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 11:45:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 11:45:41 -0000 Received: from bob (49.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.49]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16364; Fri, 12 May 2000 07:44:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000512074508.00adfbe0@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: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:47:47 -0400 To: PILCH Hartmut Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Cc: Lojban Listserver In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 08:06 AM 05/12/2000 +0000, PILCH Hartmut wrote: > > In general, little endian makes more sense. I live in Soho. If you don't > > know where that is, I'll tell you it's in Manhattan, and so on. > >You apparently didn't read my argumentation. We are unconvinced by it. >You repeat the same fallacies that have been debated over and over again. >I should create some "liste of popular linguistic errors concerning date >structures". >In short: there are two different hierarchies of importance: that of the >listener and that of the speaker. The communication-centered vs the >ego-centered one. Tho Postman does not first go to Soho but to the the >next smaller radius after the common circle that connects him to you, e.g. >"U.S. ==> New York". "New York" is the important part, not "Soho". No postman involved. If I am in Soho talking to someone else, he doesn't need to go to the US or New York first. 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