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by SilasX 164 days ago
That runs into the issue I was talking about in the proposal, where it's not backward-compatible and requires people to be informed of and sympathetic to the renaming. "Sen" will already be accepted as referring to 7, without such coordination, so long as it has enough context to be parsed as a number.
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I doubt anyone would associate 'sen' with seven: 'sev' would be much more obvious. Whereas 'sept' is already used as a prefix within English to mean seven such as September (Roman seventh month), septuplets (seven children in a single birth) and septuagenarian (a 70 year old).

Anyhow, this discussion is moot as nobody is going to follow any proposal.

The whole point is that you don't need to get anyone to consciously follow any proposal, you just push common usage in the direction of saying "sen" to the point that it becomes correct, and you can take action now to assist it, without having to coordinate, and without breaking your existing communication.

With respect, your comments read as ignoring all the points I brought up in in order to show off knowledge you're proud to have.

It'll never happen. You can sen all ypu like and nobody will use it. Honestly do you seriously believe in all reality it would?

And saying "with respect" to make a disrespectful personal insult is just pathetic.

Thanks for the second confirmation.