[lojban] Re: is minli irregular?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Zefram wrote:
>  The Spanish definition gives the
> regular place structure, with x3=standard and x4=subunits.

That could mean either that the old definition was like that, or 
that I allowed my regularization tendency to prevail in this case.
The English gismu list had a few changes made after the Spanish 
translation was done, so there may be minor differences in place
structures. (One not so minor I detected recently was {tinsa},
which I had in Spanish as "x1 fills x2 with x3", which presumably
was the old definition.)

> Which definition is actually intended?  I see no particular reason for
> subunits to be relatively more important to {minli} than other unit words,
> so this looks like an editorial error in the gismu list.  Is it?

Subunit places should "die in the arse", if I may use that expression.
The place structures of non-SI units should be brought into line with
the SI ones. When non-decimal subunits are needed, they are separated 
from the units with {pi'e}.

> And a related irregularity: the definition of {rupnu} (local major
> monetary unit) makes no mention of subunits.  Is that intentional?
> I'd say that subunits are quite frequently used with monetary units,
> but of course they're mostly decimal-based subunits, so I can see why
> the subunits places might have been omitted.

Probably because of {fepni}. 
 
> (See what I'm up to at <http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/quantities>.)

Nice summary page.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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