From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Jun 21 16:17:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 21 Jun 2001 23:17:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 83680 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2001 23:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jun 2001 23:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta3 with SMTP; 21 Jun 2001 23:17:22 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (209-8-89-137.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.137]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5LNHLP95257 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:17:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010621192014.00e0b3b0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:22:16 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i... In-Reply-To: <20010621185324.A1143@twcny.rr.com> References: <20010621151004.I8816@digitalkingdom.org> <20010621151004.I8816@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 06:53 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, Rob Speer wrote: >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. It was a priority for the digits from 0 to 9. With the hex digits, I wanted to keep them monosyllables and have them alphabetical and with repeating VV pattern as well for easy memorization. But I admit I did not compare the CVs with the CVVs. My bad. 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