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

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

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> xu lu li pa re gy. li'u selsmuni 12 gerku .i zo li nibli le du'u
> my. .e gy. namcu

xu zo fi'u cu namcu .i mi na krici

-Robin

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