From mturniansky@gmail.com Fri Mar 05 12:37:12 2010 Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com ([74.125.83.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NneGi-0002XI-A7 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:37:11 -0800 Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so1132463pvc.40 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:37:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=127ACR9WLN5/aEsPdoLOm3OSe4zNkgfjFdMaijDK5H8=; b=FgrtoGZbwdeQqJftFvWqEdjBxaC9hHwWJHR33+YjCPxOGaWnOzy43Q2R0wiHM1JOWZ fudyZ/HeQnYLBo+gBfCwlm6O/XMR0mSuyFhYlsNEHYj39IeRoN2CDmpVbSsHELkhIUiQ fV9uu8nd0aIVMtheK6oxDr4GHy19O3LURM6pQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jSo16efMzi2ilKTG9mr5EXiHxiSnnayk9cXGqbkXjtvFzIAuJ5J9oEfaJiCWCm+1iM hQ9V/jgtqh2TCxkI9YSVI6cIwR/sbJQTm6CFXUXENMWedJbcrqYQj2dpBGfWTooRwtwb F8oG1BQjQhgNjEsk8h6rCEWquFRbsDyzz2W0Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.24.18 with SMTP id b18mr978388wfj.16.1267821421864; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:37:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003051141.40805.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <702226df1003050817u882f2e2r68a8f15c67af8cb3@mail.gmail.com> <201003051141.40805.phma@phma.optus.nu> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:37:01 -0500 Message-ID: <96f789a61003051237t1bba79efh633c97e56d70eff@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: non-metric unit place exception From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 11:17:14 Jonathan Jones wrote: >> From going through the gismu, I've come across something of interest >> regarding the non-metric gismu, that being, all of them have the same basic >> place structure save one: >> >> bunda x1 is x2 non-metric weight units in standard x3 with subunits x4 >> dekpu x1 is x2 non-metric volume units in standard x3 with subunits x4 >> gutci x1 is x2 non-metric short distance units in standard x3 with subunits >> x4 >> kramu x1 is x2 non-metric area units in standard x3 with subunits x4 >> minli x1 is x2 non-metric long distance units with subunits x3 in standard >> x4 > > > How are the subunits places supposed to be used? > Subunits, I've always assumed, are quantity places as well... I am 5' 10" -> mi gutci li mu fo li pano, which is conveninet for cultures that aren't used to talking about subunits as decimals or fractions of main units. --gejyspa