From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Jan 06 08:07:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 12036 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 16:07:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Jan 2005 16:07:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 16:07:21 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CmaAS-0004nq-2w for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:07:20 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmaA8-0004nO-RJ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:07:00 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cma9y-0004n8-9I for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:06:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:06:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20050106160650.GJ18156@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200501060644.13953.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501060644.13953.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 9180 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Metric units X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23572 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}. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/