Re: [lojban-beginners] Units and Descriptions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 15:52:44 Felipe Gonçalves Assis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am feeling a bit confused about the place structure of gismu for units,
> such as {mitre}, {cacra}, etc.
> 
> I used to fill their x2 with a number, like {li papimu}, "1.5". However,
> reading the simplified gismu list, I see, e.g.,
> "
> [lo se mitre]	a number of metres
> "
> 
> Does that imply that {lo se mitre} refers to something like "1.5m"? Or
> is it really
> just a plain number? For example, can I say things like
>   {ko'a mitre li papimu}
>   {ko'e cacra li papimu},
> and, in that case, can I use {lo se mitre} and {lo se cacra} to mean
> {li papimu}?
> For instance, would the following make sense?
>   {lo se mitre cu namcu}
>   {lo se mitre cu mintu li papimu}
>   {lo se mitre cu mintu lo se cacra}
>   {ko'a mitre lo se cacra be ko'e}

mi mitre li papimu .i lo nunctuca cu cacra li papimu .i mi se mitre lo se 
cacre be lo nunctuca

I have no problem with x2 of the unit words. What puzzles me is the subunit 
places.

mu'omi'e .pier.
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