Re: [lojban] Re: non-metric unit place exception

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 11:17:14 Jonathan Jones wrote:
>> From going through the gismu, I've come across something of interest
>> regarding the non-metric gismu, that being, all of them have the same basic
>> place structure save one:
>>
>> bunda x1 is x2 non-metric weight units in standard x3 with subunits x4
>> dekpu x1 is x2 non-metric volume units in standard x3 with subunits x4
>> gutci x1 is x2 non-metric short distance units in standard x3 with subunits
>> x4
>> kramu x1 is x2 non-metric area units in standard x3 with subunits x4
>> minli x1 is x2 non-metric long distance units with subunits x3 in standard
>> x4
>
>
> How are the subunits places supposed to be used?
>

  Subunits, I've always assumed, are quantity places as well... I am
5' 10" -> mi gutci li mu fo li pano, which is conveninet for cultures
that aren't used to talking about subunits as decimals or fractions of
main units.

          --gejyspa