From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 06 08:06:57 2005
Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:06:57 -0800 (PST)
Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34)
	id 1Cma9y-0004n8-9I
	for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:06:50 -0800
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:06:50 -0800
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban] Re: Metric units
Message-ID: <20050106160650.GJ18156@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org
References: <200501060644.13953.phma@phma.hn.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <200501060644.13953.phma@phma.hn.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
X-archive-position: 9180
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org
Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org
X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org
Precedence: bulk
Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org
X-list: lojban-list

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Usage of metric symbols in English is to put the numeral before
> the symbol with a space between them. What should be the usage of
> symbols in Lojban (of course using symbols breaks AVI, but if a
> writeup uses {ki'otrefi'usnidu} a lot, you may want to use
> symbols)? Do you write "lo ml 750 botpi" or "lo ml be li 750
> botpi"?

Neither.  {lo botpi po my ly 750} or {lo botpi po my ly po la'u li
750}.

-Robin

-- 
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/