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From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [lojban] Re: the meter is a unit of length
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--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
I know that it is what the glossary says, but can
it be right?  Is "is measured-in-meters-ness" (or
"an idea of being measured in meters" really the
same as "is a meter"?  It sure doesn't look like
it, but just what "an idea/concept of" means is
not very clear.

Is this the same as (taking it that {si'o} works)
 {lo si'o mitre se ni clani}

Neither gets the "unit" part, of course.



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