From pycyn@aol.com Thu Jun 21 16:52:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 21 Jun 2001 23:52:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 8299 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2001 23:52:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 21 Jun 2001 23:52:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d03.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.35) by mta2 with SMTP; 21 Jun 2001 23:52:23 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.96.15eb10e7 (18710) for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <96.15eb10e7.2863e2b2@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:52:18 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i... To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_96.15eb10e7.2863e2b2_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_96.15eb10e7.2863e2b2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/21/2001 6:38:42 PM Central Daylight Time, rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes: > There is exactly one aspect of the language that irredemably annoys me, > no matter what anyone says (and I've seen the explanation). > > The fact that the words for the numbers are not in alphabetical order. > Or any other (vowels aside except occasionally). Has anyone come up with a decent mnemonic? pc, who cannot reliably count to 5 in Lojban -- and certainly not to 6 (which I can do in Hindi, for God sake!) OK, so other series were more imporant than numbers (what series? why?) but even given that, why couldn't the nine consonants used have been used in order? Ah, well, if this is the worst problem we have with Lojban (it is, isn't it?), then we are quite content indeed. --part1_96.15eb10e7.2863e2b2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/21/2001 6:38:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:



There is exactly one aspect of the language that irredemably annoys me,
no matter what anyone says (and I've seen the explanation).

The fact that the words for the numbers are not in alphabetical order.




Or any other (vowels aside except occasionally). Has anyone come up with a
decent mnemonic?
pc, who cannot reliably count to 5 in Lojban -- and certainly not to 6 (which
I can do in Hindi, for God sake!)

OK, so other series were more imporant than numbers (what series? why?) but
even given that, why couldn't the nine consonants used have been used in
order?  Ah, well, if this is the worst problem we have with Lojban (it is,
isn't it?), then we are quite content indeed.
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