[lojban] Re: Metric units

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

My suggestions:

> hertz

.ertso or xerzo 

> joule

djaule or djule

> watt

vatso

> pascal

paska

> lumen

lumne

> lux

lukso

> coulomb

kulmo

> ohm

.omso

> farad

farda

> weber

vebre

> tesla

tesla

> henry

xenri

(It would have clashed with xenru with the gismu algorithm, 
but I don't think that's a problem here.)

> siemens

simne

> becquerel

bekre

> gray

grei'o

> sievert

sivre

> katal

katla

> degree of arc	julra'o
> minute of arc
> second of arc

julra'omentu?
julra'osnidu?

> neper

nepre

> bel

belso

> electron volt

dicka'uvolta

> bar

barso

> angstrom

.anstro or .anstromo

> barn

barno

> Usage of metric symbols in English is to put the numeral before the symbol 
> with a space between them. What should be the usage of symbols in Lojban (of 
> course using symbols breaks AVI, but if a writeup uses {ki'otrefi'usnidu} a 
> lot, you may want to use symbols)? Do you write "lo ml 750 botpi" or "lo ml 
> be li 750 botpi"?

Perhaps we could introduce a special symbol to indicate
that what follows is a conventional *written* abbreviation 
of something that has to be expanded when read aloud.
So something like "lo /ml 750 botpi" where "/ml" would 
always be read as "milylitce be li". Using {ml} by itself
could be confused with the name {ml.}, and some other units 
might cause even worse ambiguities.

mu'o mi'e xorxes
 






	
		
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