[lojban] Re: Lojbanic for "Superscript" needed

[lojdjis <petxd086@googlemail.com>]

So is there any way to read this string:

sª 5º6²eⁿ

What for ? Well, reading aloud chemical formulae is one example. IPA
symbols is another.

It's necessary. At least for me.

On Jul 9, 3:48 am, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Kevin Reid <kpr...@switchb.org> wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:09, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
>
> >  On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:55:53AM -0700, lojdjis wrote:
>
> >>> but I'm guessing what you want is a
> >>>> counterpart to "xi", not a word meaning "superscript".)
>
> >>> Exactly.
>
> >>> For reasons of symmetry there should be a short word for "xi nai".
> >>> Are there any unoccupied two-letter words for lojban ?
>
> >> Subscripts appear to be more a fairly general means of attaching
> >> additional information or distinctions to grammatical words, rather than a
> >> representation of the typographical practice of subscripting.
>
> > The meaning of zo xi is analogous to the mathematical practice of
> > subscripting. In mathematics superscripts are variously used for lo tenfa,
> > repetitions of other elements than multiplication, and in ways similar to
> > subscripts.
>
> > Such as "2³", which means "two raised to the power of 3".
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