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On Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:33:21 PM UTC-4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> On Friday, October 24, 2014 23:36:18 Zilong Lee wrote:=20
> > 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 Ch=
inese, '=EB=A7=8C/=E8=90=AC(man)'=20
> in=20
> > Korean and '=E4=B8=87'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it exists =
in other=20
> > East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead of=
=20
> > keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17=20
> thousand'=20
> > sounds very confusing.=20
> >=20
> > If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an=20
> equivalent=20
> > word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never been=20
> thought=20
> > about?=20
>
>
Loglan had a word for 100 and 1000, `ma` and `mo` respectively. You could=
=20
string them together to get multiples. So `mama` would mean 10,000. I am=20
surprised to see nothing like this was brought over to Lojban ?

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><br>On Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:33:21 PM UTC-4, Pi=
erre Abbat wrote:<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margi=
n-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">On Friday, Oc=
tober 24, 2014 23:36:18 Zilong Lee wrote:
<br>&gt; I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different num=
ber
<br>&gt; scales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than =
10
<br>&gt; thousand, we use another word, namely '=E8=90=AC/=E4=B8=87(wan4)' =
in Chinese, '=EB=A7=8C/=E8=90=AC(man)' in
<br>&gt; Korean and '=E4=B8=87'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it ex=
ists in other
<br>&gt; East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead=
 of
<br>&gt; keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17 t=
housand'
<br>&gt; sounds very confusing.
<br>&gt;=20
<br>&gt; If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an e=
quivalent
<br>&gt; word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never bee=
n thought
<br>&gt; about?
<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Loglan had a word for 100 and 1000, `m=
a` and `mo` respectively. You could string them together to get multiples. =
So `mama` would mean 10,000. I am surprised to see nothing like this was br=
ought over to Lojban ?</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div></div>

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