Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIqto-0006LY-NV for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:13 -0800 Received: from mail-yw0-f186.google.com ([209.85.211.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIqth-0006Dr-1b for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:10 -0800 Received: by ywh16 with SMTP id 16so242602ywh.25 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:49:58 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QT25XKEg3lUy5vXyVA3qAkgpnbpx8aSTvXlr8wEfG8M=; b=vmveFQ6KWaUkvn/rZ+30sFXRX5ukfcvrRA2ccoWp2E8zwJ19KxHyK54EcR3ho2QPNB h/M5c9R5Vf/IdA7DA37jACWUPv+WGItIrguXfR6xewRfO0Ww91nnqex16Fe9Kfxe+pjT gKxRbE9Kd+nGy4HZF+TT9iuXYG4Ew0a1i8/po= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=uB7EQwiqD3yZiPQL8hhUZgk2hYKFB/W1uPjePsLFy2S0Qb3Z5xGHJEn9ZLY3BW/P/K DYrmAxk5fevfsoA88OcVucSZC3PsOoeTlffEihJb+Rbu7c8vM7jas82T5rV1SFuXtsyi Hwd5EebhD6QzrT1p52GJGLHeMKyImKOnXdD2o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.21.10 with SMTP id y10mr710877agi.113.1260481797342; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:49:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <429fde40912101249s24079419g2804c566b311b2a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <429fde40912101249s24079419g2804c566b311b2a2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:49:57 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560912101349u1b601d8i299215cf294c57a7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 2637 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 695 On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joshua Choi wrote: > From my limited knowledge of Lojban, it seems that a Lojban speaker is > able to express units only using certain selbri, such as grake and > bunda for mass. How, then, would you best express this in Lojban? > >  3 kilograms times 5 metres divided by 2 seconds to the second power > equals 7.5 Newtons. lo pilji be lo ki'ogra be li 3 be'o bei lo dilcu be lo mitre be li 5 be'o bei lo tenfa be lo snidu be li 2 be'o bei li 2 cu du lo klanrniutoni be li 7.5 Only it's actually 3.75 newtons. :) > Can units be attached to number quantities at all? mekso are not a very developed part of the language. mu'o mi'e xorxes