Date:  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject:      Re: Lojban ML: Syllogism and sophism
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la veion cusku di'e

>  At least in Finnish, I have often seen a suitable idiomatic usage (used
>  e.g. for wind speeds)
>
>     20 sekuntimetri"a = 20 second meters   for 20 m/s
>
>  which would give us (dropping m4)
>
>     nidytre        x1 is x2 in meters per second in direction x3

Yes, I like it.

 >  and, generalizing,
>
>     nidnidytre     x1 is x2 in meters per second per second in direction
x3

Right. The problem is what to do with something like Kgm (kilograms
times meters). If simple adposition means division, (which is reasonable,
because lots of compound units are obtained like that) then how do we
represent the product of two units?

co'o mi'e xorxes