[lojban] Re: Metric units

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

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:38:45AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > henry
> 
> xenri

WTF is that, btw?

> > 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.

Pretty close:

lo nu'a ma'o my ly be li 750

But that's actually more syllables then {milylitce be li}.

-Robin

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