On Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:33:21 PM UTC-4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Friday, October 24, 2014 23:36:18 Zilong Lee wrote:
> I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different number
> scales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than 10
> thousand, we use another word, namely '萬/万(wan4)' in Chinese, '만/萬(man)' in
> Korean and '万'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it exists in other
> East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead of
> keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17 thousand'
> sounds very confusing.
>
> If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an equivalent
> word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never been thought
> about?
Loglan had a word for 100 and 1000, `ma` and `mo` respectively. You could string them together to get multiples. So `mama` would mean 10,000. I am surprised to see nothing like this was brought over to Lojban ?