From lojbab@lojban.org Fri May 12 15:39:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3792 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 22:39:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 22:39:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 22:39:09 -0000 Received: from bob (121.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.121]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11723 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 18:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000512184011.00a6ded0@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 18:41:16 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Centripetal-centrifugal, little-endian--big-endian, subsets-contents, etc. In-Reply-To: References: <391BCB5B.7094@math.bas.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 08:02 PM 05/12/2000 +0000, PILCH Hartmut wrote: > > Obviously all has to do with what one is most likely to want > > to communicate or to leave out. We discuss recent events more > > often than remote ones, so years are elided more often than days > > -- otoh, seconds are not very useful on their own. > >No. This has to do with what the speaker thinks of first. Not with what >needs to be communicated first. Speech is shaped in a field of forces >between two poles: the laziness of the speaker and that of the listener. > >Also, speaking of elision here is wrong. I meant to say ellipsis, which has been replaced by several other speakers in this thread with elision. Sorry. 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