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Subject: [lojban] Re: the meter is a unit of length
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:10:23PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> How do I say this in Lojban? The obvious translation, {lo mitre cu
> gradu fi lo nilcla}, means "something measured in meters is a unit
> of length".

 ckilu         ci'u scale
                    x1 (si'o) is a scale of units for
                    measuring/observing/determining x2 (state)

lo si'o mitre cu ckilu lo ni clani

-Robin

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