[lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso

[Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name>]

Ah, when I said "to the second power" I was applying it to "seconds"
only, not "two seconds". Should have clarified, sorry.

Thanks for the answer. But then there's no way to express that
sentence as a mekso like "li ci pi'i li mu fe'i li re du ze pi mu"?
That's a shame; using mekso would be considerably more readable and
concise. I wonder how difficult it would be to add grammar rules for
suffixing or prefixing numbers with units. Though whoever is working
on the spec probably has more important things to worry about.

2009/12/10 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> 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.
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> 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
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> Only it's actually 3.75 newtons. :)
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>> Can units be attached to number quantities at all?
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> mekso are not a very developed part of the language.
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> mu'o mi'e xorxes
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