Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:36:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Zilong Lee <mrkaineli@gmail.com>
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I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different number=20
scales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than 10=20
thousand, we use another word, namely '=E8=90=AC/=E4=B8=87(wan4)' in Chines=
e, '=EB=A7=8C/=E8=90=AC(man)' in=20
Korean and '=E4=B8=87'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it exists in o=
ther=20
East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead of=20
keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17 thousand'=
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sounds very confusing.=20

If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an equivalent=
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word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never been thought=
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about?

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helve=
tica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21p=
x;">I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different number s=
cales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than 10 thousan=
d, we use another word, namely '=E8=90=AC/=E4=B8=87(wan4)' in Chinese, '=EB=
=A7=8C/=E8=90=AC(man)' in Korean and '=E4=B8=87'(man) in Japanese(I'm not s=
ure whether it exists in other East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mon=
golian, etc.), instead of keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Ja=
panese ear, '17 thousand' sounds very confusing.&nbsp;</span><br style=3D"f=
ont-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'He=
lvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style=3D"font-size: 15px;=
 line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', =
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style=3D"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-=
family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; li=
ne-height: 21px;">If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should =
have an equivalent word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has=
 never been thought about?</span><br></div>

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