what is the word for "velocity" after all?
dont tell me it's {nilsutra}
velocity=length/time
(I hate-await)
latro'a and I devised a system for making arbitrary units in Lojban. Our system involves making a zi'evla for every unit you want, and defining it using a special kind of tanru. Working under the assumption that XI+PA forms #FREE, we created two experimental cmavo: {pi'ai} (KE) and {te'ai} (XI).
{pi'ai} is used as a prefix to indicate that the unit-selbri are being multiplied to form a new unit selbri. {te'ai} is used after a unit selbri to exponentiate it.
We can easily create the units for velocity, m*s^-1, with this system as follows:
1) prefix the tanru with pi'ai; {pi'ai ...}*
2) determine the unit selbri that we need: {mitre} and {snidu}; {pi'ai mitre snidu}*
3) exponentiate accordingly; {pi'ai mitre snidu te'ai ni'u pa}
Because this new unit tanru is long, we need to make up a brivla for it based on its components ideally. To indicate that it was created with this method, we decided that prefixing it with pi'air- might be a good idea, but perhaps that the prefix can be dropped contextually.
{pi'airtredilsnidu = x1 measures x2 metres per second (by standard x3)}
= pi'ai mitre snidu te'ai ni'u pa
Some of you may hate this system, and that's okay. It's not like I approve of everything everyone does either.