From rob@twcny.rr.com Tue Jun 27 17:34:31 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23181 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 00:34:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Jun 2000 00:34:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.146) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Jun 2000 00:34:26 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA21831 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:32:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aylee.twcny.rr.com ([24.92.245.52]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:32:43 -0400 Received: from rob by aylee.twcny.rr.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1375k5-0000qu-00; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:30:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:30:13 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Computing in lojbanistan Message-ID: <20000627203013.A1869@twcny.rr.com> References: <0006271343490M.01794@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <0006271343490M.01794@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:42:43PM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: rob@twcny.rr.com On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:42:43PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >How do we stick "x-lojban" where a TWO letter code is allowed? > > Couldn't be. There are more than 676 languages in the world. I've seen figures > of ten times that many. ja'e do cumki kakne lenu pilno lei ci lerfu .i pe'i so'i le samru'e cu sruma leka tordu kei le bangu mifra .i .e'u zo .lob. (So maybe you could use three letters. It appears to me that many programs assume that the language code is going to be short. How about 'lob'?) [I probably did a bunch of things wrong in the Lojban version. How do you talk about a rafsi in lojban?] -- Rob Speer