[lojban] Re: Metric units

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 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"?

Neither.  {lo botpi po my ly 750} or {lo botpi po my ly po la'u li
750}.

-Robin

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