From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu Jun 21 15:57:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 21 Jun 2001 22:57:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 13161 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2001 22:57:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jun 2001 22:57:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout3.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.118) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jun 2001 22:57:43 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout3.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f5LMuHh19040 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.101]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:56:19 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15DDKH-0000Kc-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:53:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:53:24 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i... Message-ID: <20010621185324.A1143@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <20010621151004.I8816@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010621151004.I8816@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > The fact that the words for the numbers are not in alphabetical order. > > That, IMO, was a really, really huge mistake. > > -Robin, randomly whining. I don't really see what the problem there is. If you're entering numbers into something you want to sort alphanumerically in Lojban, why not just type the digits? I think a bigger flaw with the numbers is the {re} / {rei} one that was just pointed out. Here I was trying to impress the hex digits in my memory and I never even noticed that two digits are as indistinguishable as two different words can possibly be. What happened to making the numbers all audibly distinct? It worked for all the rest of the digits. -- Rob Speer