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From: Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: Metric units
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:06:50AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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}.

{my ly 750}? Don't we want to disentangle letterals and digits in the grammar
to correct the "abu boi za'ure'u" problem?
-- 
Rob Speer