Re: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:25:36AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:01:06AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > Numbers with letters as digits would not be so
> > > straightforward, but what would they be used for? The usual
> > > talk of using letters for the units of dimensioned numbers is
> > > nonsense because units don't work like that in Lojban.
> > 
> > I've never heard 'the usual talk'.  You mean things like "li pa
> > re my" for 12 meters?
> 
> Right. But 12 meters is {lo mitre be li pare}.

"li pa re my" seems perfectly reasonable if such a format has been
previously agreed upon.

-Robin

-- 
Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/  ***   I'm a *male* Robin.
"Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all
from running out and eating all the cookies."  -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
http://www.lojban.org/             ***              .i cimo'o prali .ui