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on 4/23/02 11:11 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote:
>
>> Speaking of names, I've always had trouble with some of the things Loglan
>> considers names. Like one o'clock, for example.
>
> Yes; names like that are a tremendous screwup. That got carried over
> into Lojban for a while, but is now abandoned in favor of the much more
> logical {ti'u li pa} (at-time the-number 1). 1:30 is then {ti'u li pa
> pi'e cino} (at-time 1 separator 30).
>
> Dates get messier, and recently spawned a big-endian/little-endian
> debate.
My gut reaction is that if it doesn't seem like it should be a name to
everybody, then it shouldn't be a name, basically. I'm not even sure that
'France' should be a name, particularly when so many non-name words are
derived from it. Well, we'll get to that. For now, the only thing I'm sure
of are names of people. And for that, I think I actually like the final C
rule followed by a pause. Tho I sure don't want to get into different
lengths of pause.
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