Re: [lojban] Re: New PA-proposal

[djandus <jandew@gmail.com>]

> The *only* reason to make "percent" a succeeding modifier (for
> which we would need a new pagselma'o) is cultural: we're used to saying
> "ten percent".

The Turks say "yüzde on" and write "%10".

The more I've been thinking about using {ce'i} instead of {pi} to indicate percentages, ({pa no ce'i re} for 10.2%,) the more I like it. It's clean and efficient, and consistent with all integer percentages in previous usage.

 

Btw, "pagselma'o" and "nacvla" are misspelled; they both need "y" between the
voiced consonant and the voiceless one.

Thanks! I remember finding a lujvo-making thing online that checked all of that stuff for me before, but I somehow lost it... Anyway, it's an easy find-and-replace, once I get around to it >< (Thanksgiving kept me busy!) Is it okay to use {pauselma'o} and {na'uvla} instead, or is it taboo to avoid the "y" buffering? (I'm not really fond of the sound of {pagy}, though {nacy} is a little nicer...)

As I mentioned, I got pretty delayed over the break -- I'm going to be going over the grammar pretty rigorously over the coming times!

mu'o mi'e djandus

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