Re: [lojban] cfipu vs. frinu

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 12 September 2010 20:48:20 Stela Selckiku wrote:
> Hmm.  I'd never heard of this confusion.  For whatever it's worth, I'd
> think it would be better for -fi'u- to belong to {cfipu}, as I've
> never seen anyone want to make a lujvo with {frinu} but I've often
> seen people say {mi selfi'u}.

The rafsi of "frinu" is used for units of the form "X per Y", since the 
cmavo "fi'u" does not have a rafsi. The refgram states that the rafsi 
of "frinu" can be used when making a lujvo that includes fractional numbers. 
There are lots of "X per Y" units, though only 
one, "ki'orgratretrefrinynidysnidu", is in jbovlaste. There's 
also "misryfrinu", as in the expression "simsa lo nu plikanji fi lo 
la'ornacle'u lo misryfrinu kei lo ni nandu".

I found it. It's in chapter 18 in the table headed "Number punctuation".

Pierre
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