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On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:38, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> Perhaps we could introduce a special symbol to indicate
> that what follows is a conventional *written* abbreviation
> of something that has to be expanded when read aloud.
> So something like "lo /ml 750 botpi" where "/ml" would
> always be read as "milylitce be li". Using {ml} by itself
> could be confused with the name {ml.}, and some other units
> might cause even worse ambiguities.

I've thought of using the hyphen for this (le karce cu Mg- li 2). The slash is 
unsuitable, since it's read as {fi'u} in such abbreviations as km/h 
(ki'otrefi'ucacra). lo fi'ursnidu could be either a hertz or a becquerel.

phma

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